Sentence examples for sentencing committee from inspiring English sources

"Since the inception of the sentencing guidelines, we have seen a consistent and dramatic upward ratchet," said James E. Felman, a lawyer in Tampa and co-chairman of the American Bar Association's sentencing committee.

They will be able to tell delinquents where to live, what work they should do (and not do) and when they ought to be at home, perhaps imposing a suspended sentence at the same time just to concentrate the mind".The bigger the menu, the better," says Janet Males, chairman of the Magistrates Associationn sentencing committee.

"I don't deserve to be sentenced by a committee to a life of agony".

Clarke's embattled legal aid, sentencing and punishment of offenders bill enters its committee stage in the House of Lords on Tuesday.

Commenting on the report, Chris Brace, chief executive of the Magistrates Association, said: "It's very encouraging that the committee has accepted our case for 12 months' sentencing jurisdiction.

The legal aid, sentencing and punishment of offenders bill (Laspo), currently going through a hostile committee stage in the Lords, is supposed to save the government £350m a year.

The former treasurer of a Republican Party committee was sentenced Thursday to three years in prison for stealing political funds, including money from dinners headlined by President George W. Bush.

A former chairman of the Manhattan Republican Committee was sentenced on Wednesday in State Supreme Court to five years' probation for violations of tax and state ethics laws, prosecutors said.

Hardliners even went after Rafsanjani's children; two of them — including one who had been a member of parliament herself, as well as deputy head of Iran's Olympic Committee — were sentenced to prison terms after Rafsanjani's second term ended.

Remarkably, six Republican members joined the committee's nine Democrats in supporting the bill, known as the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act.

Mr. Hu, 37, was detained in December 2007, shortly after testifying on China's human-rights situation before a European Parliament committee, and was sentenced to prison in early 2008.