Prosecutors asked Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Aaron Persky to sentence Turner to six years in prison, but the judge, a former prosecutor, instead imposed a six-month term in county jail.
But a new plea agreement released by the office shows that prosecutors have imposed stiffer terms on Mr. Castro.
A brief report by Xinhua, the state-run news agency, said prosecutors had "imposed coercive measures on him in accordance with the law," probably a reference that he was now officially in detention.
Prosecutors also imposed a travel ban and froze the assets of Rachid Mohamed Rachid, the former minister of investment and trade who had for years been hailed as an effective official committed to opening up Egypt's fossilized, centrally controlled economy.
If virtuously and evenhandedly requested by prosecutors and imposed by juries, I believe that the death penalty strives for a moral proportionality (i.e., does the punishment morally fit the severity of the crime?).
The governments of both Colombia and Mexico openly distanced themselves from Argentina's move.The threat by a prosecutor to impose huge fines on Chevron, an American oil firm, and jail its executives after a small leak off the coast of Rio de Janeiro earlier this year raises concerns about the treatment of foreigners.
An application by the Office of the Prosecutor to impose conditions on the suspects' summonses including that they provide details of all their home addresses and that they pay a bond to the Court was rejected by Judge Trendafilova.
"The Public Prosecutor demanded imposing proper punishments against the defendants and is seeking capital punishment for five of the defendants for their direct involvement in the murder," a statement from prosecutors said, without elaborating.
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