The only real way for California to cut prison costs is to reverse sentencing policies that have filled its prisons to bursting and have driven up costs by about 50 percent over the last decade alone.
Abley also relishes Hixkaryana, a Brazilian language which reverses sentence order to put the object first and the subject last; the sentence toto yahosIye kamara (man grabbed jaguar') does not describe crazy heroism; it should translate to 'jaguar grabbed man'.
Therefore, it would be reasonable to assume that they attended to the easier task of differentiating between forward and reversed sentences.
The test is to reverse the sentence: Of the people who love the Yankees, she is one.
The effort to reverse the sentence was at first limited to members of the Dreyfus family, but, as evidence pointing to the guilt of another French officer, Ferdinand Walsin-Esterhazy, came to light from 1896, the pro-Dreyfus side slowly gained adherents (among them journalists Joseph Reinach and Georges Clemenceau the future World War I premier and a senator, Auguste Scheurer-Kestner).
Pope Eugene III forced Stephen to reverse the sentence of banishment, and Theobald returned to his see.
After enduring decades of severe corruption, many Bangladeshis believed backroom deals would reverse the sentence and allow Mollah to go free.
There were times when he voted (mostly with the majority) to reverse capital sentences because of procedural errors.
But as my colleague Anthony Lewis pointed out last week, judges appointed by Mr. Ashcroft when he was governor of Missouri voted as often as Justice White -- in some cases, more often -- to reverse capital sentences.
Sibat was sentenced to death by beheading for being a sorcerer, though the Saudi Supreme Court eventually reversed the sentence after an international outcry.
Chief Justice Sears's opinion reversed his sentence.
