Sentence examples for trivial crimes from inspiring English sources

I always wanted to work for its lesser-known trivial crimes counterpart.

The Immigration Act of 1996 compelled the deportation of people who had committed trivial crimes years before the act was passed.

Draco's code was later regarded as intolerably harsh, punishing trivial crimes with death; it was probably unsatisfactory to contemporaries, since Solon, who was the archon in 594 bc, later repealed Draco's code and published new laws, retaining only Draco's homicide statutes.

And in India, thousands accused of petty crimes and unable to afford the money for bail languish in jails waiting for their trial for periods longer than their maximum sentence (many accused of trivial crimes have recently been released in a belated but still welcome move).

There are no tell tale signs of overcrowding, domination by internal mafias, endemic corruption, or the underclass of prisoners incarcerated for trivial crimes, that numerous reports have said are the norm for most Mexican prisons.

With this in mind, it is truly hard to imagine how a scandal like this would not lead to impeachment proceedings in the US (let's recall that both Nixon and Clinton faced this over far more trivial crimes), or to a vote of no-confidence in a European parliamentary system.

Small resentments collect until one day, perhaps because of a trivial crime, they explode in a Wagnerian burst of emotion.

In sum, the argument that repeating a trivial crime justifies doubling a 25-year minimum incapacitation sentence based on a threat to the public does not raise a seriously debatable point on which judgments might reasonably differ.

He assembles the suspicions of countless Warren Commission skeptics; provides substantial circumstantial evidence that appears to support one or another theory; and ridicules the dwindling but still significant band of believers in the Warren Commission story, which he sees as a corrupt and politicized attempt to transform a great historical tragedy into a tawdry and trivial crime.

"Whatever reduces the numbers of foolish young people, who are notorious for making poor lifestyle choices, from destroying their entire lives for what is essentially a trivial crime is a good thing".

The executive has failed to prove that extraterritorial search warrants seeking stored electronic information would be more than a trivial addition to its already formidable law enforcement arsenal, i.e., it has not shown that even one non-trivial crime has escaped detection or prosecution because of the absence of extraterritorial search warrants.