Sentence examples for maximum penalty less from inspiring English sources

First he must amend the legislation which treats wildlife crime as a petty offence that attracts a maximum penalty less than a speeding ticket.

Oklahoma cut the penalties for second marijuana possession offenses in half, and Tennessee reduced a third possession offense from a felony to a misdemeanor, making the maximum penalty less than a year in jail.

To ensure that these penalties apply EU-wide, all member states would have to require their judges to sentence maximum penalty offenders to no less than four years in jail for the most serious forms of insider dealing or market manipulation and no less than two years for improper disclosure of information.

The former owner, Cesar Rios, faces up to 4 years in prison, 11 years less than the maximum penalty for manslaughter.

Such an admission would relieve the defendant of the need to submit a formal statement of denial and would typically result in less than the maximum penalty.

Since the sentences were less than the maximum penalty for one count, if the Court's determination is wrong as to any one question, its present judgments are wrong.

Court analysts say Duch and his legal team will not be able to avoid a conviction and are working to soften his image to produce something less than the maximum penalty of life in prison.

But those people also had liberal views on how drug users should be treated: 68% thought that the maximum penalty should be two years or less in jail which is, in fact, the current limit for a class C drug.

He said the idea that LaRouche's organization was of sufficient threat to warrant such a prosecution "just defies human experience". LaRouche's sentence was considerably less than the maximum penalty on 13 counts of tax and mail fraud conspiracy.

In a nod to what commissioners repeatedly characterized as the unusual nature of the case, however, they unanimously agreed to fine Parker $500, far less than the $10,000 maximum penalty he faced.

Army Col Daniel King, speaking from Fort Bragg in North Carolina, said that the "misbehavior before the enemy" charge carried a maximum penalty of lifetime confinement, while desertion carries the less-stringent maximum penalty of five years imprisonment.