Sentence examples for showed leniency from inspiring English sources

All of which weighed at his sentencing when the judge showed leniency.

Defence lawyers said the judge showed leniency because of Zaidi's age and clean record.

Historically, judges showed leniency when penalizing corporate criminals because they were not seen as a threat to society and perhaps because they empathized with people who often came from similar backgrounds as themselves.

The referee, Henry Perenara, who struggled to control the game, showed leniency in placing Leeson Ah Mau and Sue on report after the French scrum-half, William Barthau, was flattened off the ball twice in as many minutes inside the first quarter.

Referee Craig Thomson showed leniency after Leigh Griffiths pushed Black as the two became involved in a scuffle, the Hibs striker perhaps still smarting from a heavy aerial challenge by the midfielder earlier in the match.

For some reason, the courts showed leniency with him and he received a 21-month to 4-year sentence, for which he served about 3 years.

But some wonder whether censors will show leniency.

North Korea has shown leniency to Americans in the past.

If it did not, the attorney general had the discretion to show leniency.

Few dissidents who have been detained in recent years have been shown leniency.

Judges have shown leniency in sentencing insider trading defendants who have admitted wrongdoing.