Sentence examples for sentencing needs from inspiring English sources

First, it fails to recognize that no two crimes or defendants are exactly alike, and that sentencing needs to be individualized.

A prosecutor in Manchester said: "If you are part of a disorder where you are causing fear, where law-abiding citizens can't even come into the city centre, where law-abiding citizens are leaving their offices early because they are frightened … In that context, the sentencing needs to reflect not just your culpability, but your culpability as part of the wider culpability.

Wigley said: "The laws on leniency in sentencing need updating.

Price said specifically that minimum mandatory laws that require significant incarceration time and don't give judges any flexibility in sentencing need to be reformed.

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"Your sentence needs to send a message to all city inspectors that they are guardians of the public trust and that dishonesty in inspections will be severely punished," she said.

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