Sentence examples for light prison from inspiring English sources

His federal reward in September for having blabbed was a light prison sentence: three months.

An Indonesian court sentenced six men to light prison terms in the killings.

Ms. Homolka had received the relatively light prison term in exchange for testifying against her ex-husband, Paul Bernardo.

He got a relatively light prison sentence, three years with 18 months suspended, as there was little hard evidence against him except a plane ticket for Damascus.

The "Journal Official" then printed the govt. decree pronouncing the dissolution of the OAS, with heavy fines & fairly light prison sentences for those found guilty of membership, of serving as accomplices, and giving funds to it.

Danielle S. Chiesi, the former beauty queen turned convicted Wall Street trader, deserves a light prison sentence because her crimes were the result of a tortured love affair with her boss, her lawyers said.

He made money from his steroids business, then gave up his customers to gain a lighter prison sentence.

The author John Grisham has said people who look at child abuse images "probably had too much to drink" and should be given lighter prison sentences.

Indeed, he began talking to authorities in exchange for a lighter prison term after he was caught stealing six pounds of cocaine from an evidence locker.

Officer Pena's lawyer, Ephraim Savitt, has acknowledged that his client attacked the woman but said that DNA evidence did not support sexual penetration, a distinction that would bring a much lighter prison sentence.

Prosecutors revealed on Tuesday some new details of the fraud and said that Mr. Madoff had not made any deal for a lighter prison sentence in return for his guilty plea.