(Note: Sentence removed for legal reasons).
Even as US District Judge Marvin Aspen handed down Shipp's sentence, he noted that the sentencing guidelines were "not, in my view, realistic in terms of the sentence for the offense, and in my view they are unfair".
He noted that sentencing law recognized that individuals with different levels of culpability should be treated differently, and that some crimes were more evil than others.
He also noted that sentences are often racially disproportionate, referencing a February report indicating that, in recent years, black male offenders have received sentences nearly 20percentt longer than white offenders convicted of similar crimes.
Note the sentence in the Times's report on the matter: "The News Corp executive chairman is understood to have signed off on the change of policy".
In addition, Lorde names several authors including Raymond Carver, Wells Tower, Tobias Wolff, Claire Vaye Watkins, Sylvia Plath, Walt Whitman and T. S. Eliot as lyrical inspirations – particularly noting their sentence structures.
Note each sentence is regarded as an independent record.
Goldberg notes sentences like The music lent the event a festive air, where the music is subject of the verb lend despite the fact that music cannot literally lend anything to anyone.
"This particular plea agreement has no jail time," Judge Bosso-Pardo noteduringng the sentencing.
The letter's first sentence noted that Mr. Romney retired from Bain Capital more than 13 years ago.
Birnbaum noted that the sentence will ultimately be determined by the judge, Paul A. Chernoff.
