Sentence examples for lesser offender from inspiring English sources

One lesser offender named in the commission's public filings -- $3.2 million, of a total of $125 million -- was an Enron subsidiary in Oregon.

The infuriated whores put a price of $1,000 on the malefactors' heads and they prove remorseless, even when the lesser offender offers an especially valuable horse as a present to the scarred Delilah.

But all three ended up in the dock, as a result of which Caroline was transported to Van Diemen's Land, now Tasmania; Sarah was transported to New South Wales; and Mary-Ann, a lesser offender, served six months in a London prison.

That provision is among the reasons why some environmentalists say the House bill is the lesser offender of the two competing proposals.

The question: is the lesser offender (Lesser) or the greater offender (Greater) the greater offender?

Britain's new government is proposing to replace jail for lesser offenders with community work.

He had asked Shin Bet to draw up lists of lesser offenders.

Only convict felons there will be lesser offenders brought form Riker's Island to work.

Punishment for serious crimes included penal servitude and execution; mutilation and flogging were often used to punish lesser offenders.

"Three strikes" laws, which were at first used to put away persistently violent criminals for life, have in several states been applied to lesser offenders.

He proposes, for lesser offenders, punishments that are swift and certain but not necessarily severe: a night in jail, instead of a warning, for missing a meeting with a parole officer, say, and ten nights the next time.