Sentence examples for lower conviction from inspiring English sources

Community sentences managed by probation services had achieved a lower conviction rate than custodial sentences.

Yours ever, Dominic There are lower conviction rates in child sex abuse and domestic violence cases, but you don't propose anonymity for those.

Though it's difficult to make precise comparisons among prosecutors' offices, the local press has frequently asserted that the San Francisco office seems to have a lower conviction rate, more lenient bail policies, and weaker enforcement of quality-of-life crimes than those of neighboring counties.

Tellingly, the U.N. notes that the Americas have a vastly lower conviction rate for murder, at 24percentnt, compared to 48percentnt in Asia and 81percentnt in Europe.

In patients with chronic Psoriasis vulgaris, higher levels of optimism, lower conviction of others' influence on one's health and the less frequently employed coping strategy "concentration on emotions" were correlated with higher acceptance of disease [ 18].

If "conviction" meant "entry of judgment of conviction," a "case" would surely not be the "case of his second or subsequent conviction" until that judgment of conviction was entered, by which time a lower sentence than that which § 924(c)(1) requires would already have been imposed.

Three judges of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania on Monday affirmed a lower court conviction for animal cruelty of a dog groomer who had offered "gothic" kittens on eBay.

She wants the conviction substituted for one of manslaughter, which can carry a much lower sentence.

Several lower grade convictions were either thrown out, overturned on appeal or timed out owing to their statute of limitations.

This month, an appeals court upheld a lower-court conviction against Mr. Berlusconi, and Italy's highest court is expected to rule in that case as soon as this year.

In June he was given a lower-grade conviction and sentenced to seven years in jail and a lifetime ban on public office for paying for sex with an underage prostitute and abusing his office to cover it up.