As it stands, civil fines are typically modest, and criminal penalties are so minimal -- a maximum of six months in jail -- that prosecutors seldom bring cases.
Sekulow has only modest experience in criminal law, but the President appreciated his spirited appearances on cable news and hired him as the public face of his defense.
But unlike, say, Jay-Z (an executive producer of the film), Jay Gatsby is a rich man whose modest background and criminal past are something to be hidden, sources of mystery, shame and potential ruin.
Scores on measures of drug abuse were modest predictors of criminal victimisation status in our Receiver Operator Characteristic analyses.
But, because private prison companies routinely lobby Congress for lengthier prison sentences, the federal government's announcement was seen as a modest victory for criminal-justice-reform advocates, whose long-term goal is to end mass incarceration.
Their efforts were largely trounced by the intense lobbying of gun rights groups, which declined to support a modest initiative to expand criminal background checks for gun buyers.
Here are 10 irksome things that, with modest adjustments to the criminal code, could quickly result in enough revenue to replace all that lost traffic-ticket money, pay off the city's debt if the city has any debt and probably bail out the federal government, too.
The transactions outlined in the criminal complaints generated modest profits.
The package would implement relatively modest changes to the U.S. criminal justice system.
Big money-making was generally deplored as a semi-criminal racket, although modest affluence was craved and the consumer culture began to blossom.
