Sentence examples for received leniency from inspiring English sources

Both defendants received leniency, their lawyers said, because of their cooperation, which led to the convictions last year of three members of the Goettlich family, who controlled the company.

She pleaded guilty to conspiracy to help a terrorist organization and received leniency in her sentence in exchange for helping the FBI.

Meanwhile, miscreants who have escaped detection or received leniency are undetected by "the box". All that the questions reveal is who was ensnared, not who did wrong.

He was exonerated in 2011 after it was revealed that a key prosecution witness, a pimp, had received leniency in exchange for his testimony — a deal prosecutors had not disclosed.

Shirley L. Huntley, who had pleaded guilty to stealing from a nonprofit organization she ran, recorded conversations at her home in hopes of receiving leniency.

The complaint said he was providing information to prosecutors in hopes of receiving leniency related to his actions in the case.

Mr. Pelosi's lawyer, Gerald L. Shargel, said the inmates were habitual criminals who thought they would receive leniency from prosecutors if they provided damning information about his client.

The officers, for example, suggested he would receive leniency for complying and fed facts "to get Brendan to say how Ms Halbach died", said the attorney, Laura Nirider.

Channel One reported that Mr. Osmayev had revealed details of the plan, and those of a plot that Russia's domestic intelligence agency foiled in 2007, in the hope of receiving leniency from prosecutors.

"He's not your conventional criminal who's trying to receive leniency," said Thane Rosenbaum, who teaches law at Fordham University and is the author of "The Myth of Moral Justice".

Under antitrust law, the first participant in a cartel to agree to cooperate with the government can receive leniency, including reduced fines and the likelihood that no criminal charges will be filed.