Sentence examples for sentencing and a from inspiring English sources

Efforts at change have already started taking root, including expedited sentencing and a shift from arrests to summonses for certain offenses.

To allow judges to consider a criminal defendant's conduct between an initial sentencing and a resentencing could, he said, create "a procedural merry-go-round".

Law enforcement officials credited crime-prevention programs, anti-gun campaigns, more police on the street, tougher sentencing and a healthy economy producing jobs.

"As one might expect, a good case can be made that fewer Americans are now being victimized" thanks to the tougher crime policies, Paul G. Cassell, an authority on sentencing and a former federal judge, wrote in The Stanford Law Review.

Peter Darragh Quinn was also sentenced to jail for contempt, but he failed to appear for sentencing and a warrant for his arrest was issued by the High Court in Dublin.

Second, justice or fairness in punishment is the essential task of sentencing, and a just sentence takes its character from the culpability of the offender and the harm the crime caused the victim and society (Card 1973, von Hirsch 1985, Nozick 1981: 366 74).

He faces a 25-year sentence and a $500,000 fine.

He received a suspended sentence and a few years' probation.

Ms. Puente was serving two life sentences and a concurrent 15-year-to-life sentence.

"It was a correct sentence and a courageous sentence," said Henry Froshin, the lawyer representing Ms. Ayers.

There's really no difference between a life sentence and a sentence of life without parole.