Sentence examples for lesser count from inspiring English sources

A lesser count of trespassing and one count of failure to obey an order have also been brought against most of the defendants.

Should the opponent have an equal or lesser count, he has undercut the knocker and receives the difference (if any) plus a bonus of 25 points.

The Nassau County district attorney, Kathleen Rice, said that of the 40 individuals charged by her office since 2001 for trying to sexually entice minors over the Internet, 34 pleaded guilty to the initial felony charge and only one pleaded to a lesser count, harassment.

Mr. Davis, 31, of Fredericksburg, Va., put his head down and cried as the jury forewoman announced that he was not guilty of aggravated assault -- a charge that could have brought him up to 10 years in prison -- or of a lesser count, third-degree assault, that Judge Harold W. Fullilove had offered as an alternative.

Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge John O'Donnell also cleared Mr Brelo of the lesser count of felonious assault.

Oscar Pistorius was a picture of composure as the judge announced he was guilty of culpable homicide, a lesser count of murder in South Africa.

Some prosecutors deliberately overcharge to encourage suspects to plead guilty on lesser counts.

The other four defendants received prison terms of 10 years to life for espionage conspiracy and lesser counts.

The indictment, which was unsealed on Wednesday, charges each with two counts of second-degree grand larceny and several lesser counts of larceny, conspiracy and scheming to defraud.

It upheld three lesser counts of war crimes for not adequately protecting detained civilians and not punishing subordinates who had wrongfully detained them.

Another man, Robert Ellis, was acquitted of murder charges, but convicted on lesser counts of weapons possession and was sentenced to 15 years in prison.