Sentence examples for prescribed sentence from inspiring English sources
Having unmoored himself from the guidelines' strictures, however, Ellis went into a free-form plunge, not stopping until he had cut the prescribed sentence by a full 80percentt.
Recently, one student she tutors was given an assignment with prescribed sentence length and rigid structure.
Judge Richard D. Bennett said he would approve and impose the prescribed sentence, which was negotiated between prosecutors and defense lawyers.
Although there is no prescribed sentence of "whole life", (English law has never, either before or after the 1965 abolition, related the life sentence to natural life) a handful of convicted murderers have been told officially that they will be kept in prison for the rest of their lives.
But the Supreme Court resolved that issue in Booker, when it rendered the sentencing guidelines "advisory". Much to the satisfaction of Berman and many defense advocates, the court allowed district judges to vary from prescribed sentencing guidelines based on their instinct about what the proper punishment should be — even where that instinct was at odds with the sentencing guidelines.
Hernandez was sentenced under federal guidelines that existed prior to the 2005 Supreme Court ruling that overturned prescribed sentences for certain crimes.
They rejected linking sentences to prison capacity, flatly dismissing talk of a Minnesota-style sentencing "grid", which prescribes sentences, as a major incursion into their judicial independence.
Petitioner contends, however, that given the unique treatment afforded capital-sentencing proceedings under Bullington, double-jeopardy protections were triggered when the jury deadlocked at his first sentencing proceeding and the court prescribed a sentence of life imprisonment pursuant to Pennsylvania law.
The prescribed minimum sentence for murder in South Africa is 15 years, though a judge can reduce that penalty in some circumstances.
In Canada, both the English and French language sections of the Canadian Style, A Guide to Writing and Editing (1997), prescribe single sentence spacing.
(b) Double-jeopardy protections were not triggered when the jury deadlocked at petitioners first sentencing proceeding and the court prescribed a life sentence pursuant to Pennsylvania law.
