The verdict would carry a maximum term of 15 years in prison.
The charge carries 90 days maximum jail time, and the judge will deliver the verdict.
The award, it said, was 70 times the size of the largest affirmed sexual-harassment verdict in Michigan history, and 70 times the maximum award for such claims for compensatory and punitive damages combined under federal harassment law.
But, she added, given the difference between a maximum 10-year sentence and what could have resulted from a guilty verdict, it would have been a "humongous risk" to go to trial.
"We are going to file an objection to the judge's verdict because the sentence is too light compared to the maximum jail sentence of 15 years according to Saudi law, whereas Sumiati has suffered extraordinary consequences".
Disregarding the prosecutors' recommendation and dismissing the jury's verdict, the judge in the case gave my father the maximum sentence, which pushed his release date to this month.
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Mr. Du, who was taken into custody after the verdict, faces a prison sentence of up to seven years, the maximum that can be handed down by Hong Kong's District Court.
Sentencing is expected in January, and legal commentators said rape verdicts usually carried a minimum sentence of 4 years and a maximum of 16.
The demonstrations were peaceful, even as the demonstrators called for the maximum penalty to be brought to bear against the trials' defendants.Seven more verdicts are due, most of them are expected to come within a matter of months.
