Sentence examples for sentence imposed under from inspiring English sources

The decision also vacated the 10-year sentence imposed under the same law on a fifth member of the group, who used a grenade.

In that ruling, made in June on a case in Washington State, a sentence imposed under the state sentencing guidelines was invalidated.

It was the second time the Court of Appeals had blocked a death sentence imposed under the 1995 capital punishment law that was championed by George E. Pataki.

Assuming that the district court's sentencing decision is procedurally sound, the appellate court should then consider the substantive reasonableness of the sentence imposed under an abuse-of-discretion standard.

While New York's highest court is considering the first appeal of a death sentence imposed under the state's 1995 capital punishment law, an appeal of a second death sentence is posing a new set of challenges to the law and the way it is being applied.

For example, it could affect sentences imposed under the Federal Death Penalty Act, under which the "aggravating circumstances" that make a defendant eligible for the death penalty are not charged in the indictment.

In a dissenting opinion, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor said the decision "threatens an untold number of criminal judgments," perhaps undoing all criminal sentences imposed under federal or state guideline systems for at least the last four years.

Older stringent punishments "that are out of line with sentences imposed under today's laws erode people's confidence in our criminal justice system," Cole said.

Vanover, 26, must pay a $10,000 fine and spend three years under supervised release under the sentence imposed by United States District Judge Gary Fenner.

Strawberry could face up to 18 months in prison under a sentence imposed last year and then suspended pending completion of the drug program.

Former Irvine City Councilman C. David Baker, once a rising star in the local Republican Party, will work with children and deliver hot meals to the elderly under a sentence imposed against him Monday for forging a $48,000 check during his recent failed bid for Congress.