Sentence examples for lighter term from inspiring English sources

Judge Lake said Friday that he had calculated the sentencing range to be about 12.5 years to 15.5 years, but gave Mr. Olis a lighter term.

NEWARK (AP) — The informer in New Jersey's biggest corruption sting operation was sentenced on Thursday to six years in prison by a judge who ignored prosecutors' recommendations to impose a lighter term.

Sentencing guidelines directed the judge to impose a mandatory life sentence, but Mr Chambers appealed for a lighter term.

His two closest accomplices also received relatively stiff sentences, but many of the defendants received lighter terms and two were acquitted.

"To say she's frustrated would be a light term," Rich Nichols, Jones's longtime lawyer and business manager, said.

"It's such a light term, and if you looked at my life, you'd see it wasn't light at all".

Possibly because of his coöperative attitude at the trials, Rafe was given the lightest term — eight years, for the crimes of rape and unpremeditated murder.

However, the effects of competition for light on short term vegetation dynamics are still poorly understood.

Once the seedlings are exposed to a short term light impulse, the pathway profile shifted.

Table S3, short term light induction of putative clock-controlled genes.

The analysis of short term light responsiveness of transcription of phlp1, gnb1 and gng1 (15 to 120 minutes of illumination) complemented long term light exposure experiments (72 hours of constant illumination or darkness).