The phrase "request leniency" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used when someone is asking for a reduction in punishment or a less severe consequence for their actions. Example: In his closing statement, the defense attorney begged the judge to have mercy and request leniency for his client, who had expressed deep remorse for his involvement in the crime.
The prosecutors wrote the letter on May 21 to request leniency for Mr. Chang, a Korean-American entrepreneur, who pleaded guilty to tampering with a witness and to making $53,700 in illegal contributions to the senator's first election campaign in 1996.
The Labour Party insisted she did not know about his arrest until after his sentencing in October — but a legal application by several newspapers last week revealed Osamor had in fact written to a judge overseeing the case beforehand to request leniency.
Glenn cited a letter [pdf below] that Sinia had purportedly written to the federal judge to request leniency for her husband. .
His son received five years' probation and 30 hours of community service after Gamboa requested leniency for him.
Judge Werlein remarked on the many letters from friends, relatives and former colleagues attesting to their character and requesting leniency.
Mr. Kerik's defense team filed a memo on Monday requesting leniency, and asked the judge to consider Mr. Kerik's "extraordinary and meteoric rise from truly humble origins wrought with hardship".
B3 Victim Requests Leniency Matthew Propp, who was kidnapped as an infant in Queens two decades ago, and raised by his abductors as their son, asked a judge for leniency in sentencing the couple.
In requesting leniency for him, federal prosecutors in Concord, N.H., conceded in a motion to Judge Joseph DiClerico that Mr. Field had let "greed" cancel out the years he spent protecting the public from fraud and wrongdoing.
It was first reported last month on politicsnj.com that Mr. Vas wrote a letter in 2004 -- on General Assembly letterhead -- requesting leniency in the sentencing of Joe T. Trinidad, 43, a son of a friend.
Over the weekend, the legal team working for Michael Cohen, President Trump's estranged fixer and personal lawyer, filed a new document requesting leniency, now that Cohen has pleaded guilty to lying to Congress to conceal efforts to build a Trump Tower in Moscow that continued at least into June 2016, around when Trump clinched the nomination.
UPDATE: Nine of the 12 jurors have now written to the judge requesting leniency.
