Sentence examples for sentencing required from inspiring English sources

His sentencing required that he pay restitution to those who wanted it, although only two of his customers did so, Mr. Reiner said.

The exercise of discretion in sentencing requires an exercise of moral judgment by the judge, and judges in a modern democracy should not be allowed to exercise moral authority over their fellow citizens".

In 1976, after expressions of outrage from a public previously largely indifferent and new legislation from 35 states, the Court turned to a system of discretionary sentencing, requiring jurors to consider aggravating and mitigating circumstances before ordering execution.

He said the sentence, required by mandatory guidelines, was unjust in that case.

Someone came pretty close, but the general consensus was that the sentence required a syntactic tree.

And a federal judge responded with a heavy sentence required by Congress: 10 years in prison.

Kimbrough v. United States, No. 06-6330, addresses judicial discretion to mitigate the sentences required for offenses involving crack cocaine.

A man whose conviction on child pornography charges won him an unusual champion — the trial judge, Jack B. Weinstein — was sentenced on Thursday to five years in prison, the minimum sentence required by law.

In the case, which has played out in Federal District Court in Manhattan over the last two years, Judge Lynch tried tack after tack to prevent the teenager from receiving the 10-year minimum sentence required by law.

Some judges may tolerate overstretched abuse claims as a means to lessen unduly harsh sentences required under sentencing guidelines.

Part of his sentence required him to wear an electronic tag.