Sentence examples for such sentencing from inspiring English sources

If such sentencing guidelines were mandatory, as they once were, the case would have been easy.

And even when such sentencing enhancements are enforced, the sentences — which can sometimes be 18 or 20 years — are often well below what Mr. Vilca received.

And you are correct to point out that such sentencing structures drive discretion and power toward prosecutors at the expense of judges.

Prosecutors were fairly robust in their defence of custodial and deterrent sentences, though occasionally admitting to the febrile atmosphere in which such sentencing took place, and occasionally talked in more sympathetic tones about the large number of first-time offenders.

As such, sentencing deviations may more accurately reflect a deal worked out between prosecutors and defense attorneys more than the sentencing wisdom of a judge.

The announcement publicly acknowledged that such sentencing laws are racially biased.

In the ACLU's sample, 83% of such sentences were the result of mandatory-sentencing laws.

Such sentences should be abolished.

Such sentences occur on almost every page.

But such sentences are only half the wonder.

The chilling effect of such sentences is probably immeasurable.