Sentence examples for sentences were overturned from inspiring English sources
Both of those sentences were overturned after prosecutors protested the lenient penalties and appealed the decisions.
The sentences were overturned after seven months, but the Kafkaesque convictions were upheld.
A district court subsequently ruled that both men were guilty of extortion, and Mr. Mikulic of slavery, but the sentences were overturned on appeal.
Even after the sentences were overturned, the notoriety associated with the case made it difficult for some of them to find or hold decent jobs, and sometimes led to their being shunned.
He was sentenced twice before by Judge John C. Coughenour of Federal District Court in Seattle, to 22 years in prison each time; both sentences were overturned by federal appeals court panels.
It is hardly reassuring that fully 75percentt of the people whose capital sentences were overturned by state courts because of serious error were found upon retrial to deserve a sentence less than death.
A new Columbia University study found that two of every three death sentences are overturned on appeal.
The conviction and a three-year suspended jail sentence were overturned on appeal but were reinstated by the State Supreme Court.
His convictions - for aiding and abetting crimes against humanity in Sarajevo and Srebrenica - and his 27-year prison sentence were overturned.
His conviction and three year prison sentence were overturned in 2014.
Van Houten was found guilty of the LaBianca murders in 1971 and sentenced to death but that conviction and sentence were overturned on appeal.
