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After the judgment is translated into French for the defence, a separate sentencing hearing will take place.
The jury will have to reach unanimous verdicts to sentence Mr. al-'Owhali and Mr. Mohamed to death, but the decisions will be reached at separate sentencing trials.
In one of the earliest decisions rejecting the federal guidelines, a reluctant judge in Utah noted that a routine robbery case might require 20 separate sentencing determinations.
He rejected the possibilities of convening a separate sentencing jury or imposing the maximum sentence suggested by the factors that had been proved or admitted.
In those states, as well as under the federal death penalty law, the potential aggravating factors -- like an especially heinous and cruel murder, or one committed for financial gain -- are not charged in the indictment but are left for a separate sentencing hearing after conviction.
The year after the Kansas Supreme Court struck down the state's sentencing law, the Legislature responded by passing a bill requiring prosecutors, either as part of the main case or in a separate sentencing proceeding, to prove to the jury the facts on which harsher sentences would be based.
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She began going through the 10 separate sentences he faced: "I sentence you to life in prison," she said.
Thus, prosecutors have asked the judge to impose separate sentences for each violation, totaling 230 years in prison.
The judge said the couple had also attacked Kristy's sisters but he would not pass separate sentences for that.
In cumulative sentences a defendant convicted on several counts receives a separate sentence for each count; such sentences may run concurrently or consecutively.
His Murakami Fund was charged with receiving inside information from livedoor, whose boss, Takafumi Horie, is appealing against a separate sentence.
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