Sentence examples for may be imprisonment from inspiring English sources
The Supreme Court has ruled, moreover, that where the accused is indigent, the right to counsel must be implemented by the provision of a court-appointed lawyer in the case of all crimes for which punishment may be imprisonment.
The punishment could be imprisonment for up to a month and a fine that "may extend to 500 rupees, or with both".
In general, any crime punishable by imprisonment in a state penitentiary is infamous, and any federal crime that may be punished by imprisonment for more than a year is also an infamous crime.
Penalties of up to seven years' imprisonment may be inflicted for desecrating these places.
Moreover, even for those who are, decades of imprisonment may be as great a deterrent as the remote prospect of execution.
Because Steve's just been sent to jail – and so scandalous has his treatment been that imprisonment may be the best thing that has happened to him for years.
The point at which terrorist sympathies pose a specific enough threat to merit imprisonment may be as hard to ascertain as the proper limit of that controversial power.
Systems like the box, they say, also offer a glimpse of a future in which imprisonment may be more a function of technology than of bricks and bars.
The Supreme Court expanded the right to counsel today, ruling 5 to 4 that a state may not impose even a suspended sentence -- in which eventual imprisonment may be only a remote possibility -- on an indigent defendant for whom it has not appointed a lawyer.
It doesn't flatter Bugliosi to hold him partly responsible, seeing as he's still giving interviews and selling books, albeit one-sided and, like the adaptations they sprung, unwilling to consider that Manson's history of abuse and imprisonment may be as important to the horrors as the song White Rabbit, new-age spiritualism or bell-bottom flares.
A plausible thesis of self-ownership must allow that some rights (e.g., against imprisonment) may be lost if one violates the rights of others.
