Sentence examples for return discretion from inspiring English sources

"The central principle was to return discretion to judges in drug cases.

Mr Clarke said he wanted to return discretion for murder sentences to judges.

"The bottom line is to return discretion to the judges," said Assemblyman Keith Wright, a Harlem Democrat.

ACPO might be wise to scrap its guidance altogether and return discretion to chief constables to act proportionally in individual cases".

Further, Congress needs to return discretion to judges, empowering them to impose sentences that truly fit the crime and the person before them, rather than being conscripted to impose mandatory minimums they may oppose.

"Returning discretion to judges is really the heart of where we want to go," said Jeffrion L. Aubry, an assemblyman who represents Queens and has led efforts to overturn the statutes, known as the Rockefeller drug laws because Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller made them a centerpiece of his agenda.

· Returns discretion to sentencing judges to tailor the penalty to the facts and circumstances of each drug offense.

Joan, fully aware of Turing's homosexuality, offers social respectability in return for discretion.

It is long past time to overturn this law and return judicial discretion.

It's time for New York to kick its addiction to prisons and return sentencing discretion to judges, where it belongs.

This month, the Assembly passed legislation that would return judicial discretion to judges and offer treatment instead of jail for low-level offenders.