Sentence examples for sentencing procedure from inspiring English sources

In a Supreme Court argument today on the constitutionality of New Jersey's unusual sentencing procedure for hate crimes, the justices appeared troubled by the state's law but also troubled by the broader implications of overturning it.

The sentencing procedure in use in Kansas these days is a reaction to a 2001 decision by its Supreme Court, which struck down the state's sentencing law with the same reasoning later used by the United States Supreme Court.

"Only the most extravagant speculation would lead to the conclusion that the supposedly  prejudicial evidence renders the Carr brothers' joint sentencing procedure fundamentally unfair".

Scalia once again took a starring role on Wednesday, as lead author of the 8-to-1 decision in Kansas v. Carr, in which the court sided with the state in ruling that the Constitution doesn't grant the brothers -- and a third capital defendant in unrelated murders -- a right to a sentencing procedure that treats evidence that mitigates their culpability more charitably than it does other evidence.

Clarifies the sentencing procedures for youth offenders; creates the youth conditional caution and the youth rehabilitation order, a generic community sentence.

During sentencing procedures, the relatives of crime victims are often given an opportunity to describe their loss to the court in emotionally gripping ways.

State Representative Jim Dunnam, a Democrat from Waco, has introduced legislation to conform capital sentencing procedures in Texas to those in some other states.

Colombia's government will seek to stiffen prison sentencing procedures after the government failed to prevent the early release of a former top leader of the multibillion-dollar Cali cartel cocaine empire, President Álvaro Uribe said today.

In Mr. Abu-Jamal's case, the court granted review sought by the prosecution and ordered the federal appeals court in Philadelphia to take account of a decision last week that clarified capital sentencing procedures.

But the decision opens the door to challenges to sentencing procedures in many other contexts, including federal drug sentences and even the structure of the federal sentencing guidelines themselves, in which the jury determines guilt and the judge makes many essentially factual determinations that lead to the final sentence.

Judge Thomas C. Platt of Federal District Court in Brooklyn was so reluctant to follow the sentencing procedures that an appellate panel unanimously removed him from a routine drug case, saying that his decisions were "improperly affected" by his "annoyance" with the sentencing guidelines and with the United States attorney's office.