Sentence examples for minimum penalties for from inspiring English sources
Increase minimum penalties for committing felonies with assault weapons.
It would require states to adopt federally set minimum penalties for texting while driving or forfeit 25percentt of highway financing.
They have introduced a bill that would set minimum penalties for doping violations in races with simulcast wagering, which is conducted across state lines.
She referred to three cases to support the other half of the legislation – introducing mandatory minimum penalties for violent home invasions – but Keogh said two of those cases had been challenged.
The panel's deliberations are the latest chapter in a long-running, racially charged debate over severe mandatory minimum penalties for crack cocaine offenses enacted by Congress during the crack epidemic in the 1980s, amid a crime wave fueled by addicts and rival drug traffickers.
Federal law already provides mandatory minimum penalties for certain fentanyl offenses.
Under the current rules, the minimum penalty for testing positive is a two-year ban.
"We need a three-year minimum penalty for illegally carrying a gun on our streets," Emanuel said.
An Indonesian court sentenced a notorious militia leader today to 10 years in prison, the minimum penalty, for crimes committed during East Timor's violent break from Indonesia.
New laws, for example, have increased the minimum penalty for illegally carrying a loaded firearm in public to three and a half years.
Mr. Coughlin said he believed that federal prosecutions, in which life sentences are generally the minimum penalty for piracy, could discourage pirates across the globe.
