"What has caused concern in courts across the nation is that we have a lot of relatively law-abiding individuals sitting in the basement downloading the wrong kind of dirty pictures facing not just prison sentences but incredibly long prison sentences," said Douglas A. Berman, a professor at Moritz College of Law of Ohio State University, who studies sentencing issues.
Even a nod from a person who is esteemed is of more force than a thousand arguments or studied sentences from others.
In this study, sentences containing gene entities or GO terms are considered as potential evidence sentences.
During the two encoding tasks, participants studied sentences in which trial-unique object nouns were paired with one of eight contexts.
In May, they introduced another bill, specifically asking the Violence Institute to study sentencing reform for nonviolent drug offenders.
For example, when Cassia C. Spohn, a professor of criminal justice at Arizona State University, studied sentencing, she found that black and Hispanic defendants were more likely to be sentenced to prison.
It is possible that under the less predictable conditions of the present study, sentence-extraneous information was included into discourse-related knowledge.
In more predictable and therefore easier conditions of our previous study, sentence-extraneous information was taken into consideration, as demonstrated by the presence of the N400 component, but in a qualitatively different way as in the present study.
Thus, the present study constitutes additional evidence for the robust algorithmic nature of the syntactic stream along the parsing processes, as syntactic violations are affected neither by syntactic [30] nor semantic (present study) sentence-extraneous information.
