Sentence examples for more heinous case from inspiring English sources

I cannot imagine a more heinous case of judicial misconduct.

Perhaps it's the lack of sleep, but after a long and sensationally undistinguished career observing the media, I can't remember a more heinous case of persecution for a harmless Wildean thrust.

While this case did involve hazing, the more heinous crime here was sexual assaults that were allegedly perpetrated by older male teammates on younger ones.

She noted that defendants in other well-known American terrorism cases had received life sentences for more heinous crimes, including Zacarias Moussaoui, who pleaded guilty to conspiracy in connection with the Sept. 11 attacks, and Terry L. Nichols, who was convicted of murder in the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah federal building in 1995 in Oklahoma City.

The Nichols case illustrates a troubling paradox in death-penalty jurisprudence: the more heinous a crime — and the more incontrovertible the evidence of a defendant's guilt — the greater the cost of the defense may be.

She said the changes to the automatic transfer law that have passed the General Assembly strike the right balance by allowing less serious cases to remain under juvenile jurisdiction but moving the more heinous, violent offenders to adult court.

Belgians became highly attuned to the issue of sexual abuse as a result of a heinous case of child molestation and murder that led to nationwide protests more than a decade ago.

Reporting financial wrongdoing is apparently more heinous.

Are some activists more heinous than others?

But many are implicated in far more heinous crimes.

Given Mr Hussein's involvement in far more heinous crimes, including the gassing, slaughtering and torturing to death of some 300,000 of his fellow Iraqis, it may seem odd to have started with a minor case.