Sentence examples for sentencing not from inspiring English sources

The Justice Department should let these professional prosecutors make decisions about sentencing, not impose a political agenda on them.

Even if claims of diminished capacity are not exculpatory in determining guilt or innocence, in some situations they can influence sentencing, not a trivial matter.

This stay is about the sentencing, not about guilt; Buck shot three people, two of whom died (one was his ex-girlfriend).

Filming would only take place of the sentencing, not the trials themselves or the verdicts delivered by the jury.

To be eligible for the ChalleNGe program, youth must have dropped out or been expelled from school, be unemployed, drug-free at the time of entry into the program, not currently on probation or parole for anything beyond juvenile status offenses, not serving time or awaiting sentencing, not under indictment or charged, and not convicted of a felony or capital offense.

I found that emphasizing the high financial costs of incarceration, the ineffectiveness of prison as a crime reduction tool, and the massive growth in the use of incarceration caused by harsher sentencing (not more crime) were most effective.

And judges can order that a sentence not be reduced.

He received two consecutive life sentences and one concurrent life sentence, not a death sentence.

It is our sentences, not our sentiments, that we ought to protect.

Nonetheless, Professor Wilson generally supports tough sentences, not for reasons of deterrence, but for retribution.

They were designing sentences not for people but for a thing: the aggregate level of crime.