"Cases involving celebrity drug offenders can also profoundly affect public perceptions about the fairness and proportionality of the response of the justice system, especially if there is a less lenient response to similar or lesser offences committed by non-celebrities".
That can mean a lengthy sequence of hearings and appeals, while the newcomer remains in Canada, living on social benefits (or crime: armed robbery and drug-dealing are among the lesser offences committed by some self-styled refugees).As everywhere, the new arrivals they come notably from Asia, these days include only a small minority of bad hats.
"A lesser together committed bunch of lads could have been beaten.
And certainly there are many others of lesser means committed to supporting charity regardless of the tax benefits.
Yet harsh sanctions were imposed on other regimes that committed lesser crimes.
"They got D.O.C. mixed in with parish prisoners," another inmate complained, referring to the State Department of Corrections inmates who mingle freely with those who have committed lesser local crimes.
Progressives said, No, let Tiger play — he made an honest mistake, one that likely wouldn't have been identified, much less pursued, if a lesser light had committed it.
Among a very influential number of leading grand and lesser ayatollahs, Ali Khamenei committed the mortal sin of forfeiting his divine authority by descending into the abyss of Iranian politics and consequently incurred the wrath of millions of Iranians victimized by his terror squads rather than remaining above the fray.
The jury deadlocked on a lesser charge of conspiracy to commit murder.
The friction was compounded when the five other defendants in the trial were acquitted of plotting to bomb airliners; one of the five, Umar Islam, 31, was convicted on the lesser charge of conspiracy to commit murder.
