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In terms of Mr. Coke's ultimate sentence, the upshot of the unusual proceeding may be very little.
Since 1977, when Illinois had restored the death penalty, 270 men and women had received the ultimate sentence.
"But, in our system of justice," Ms. White said, "the ultimate sentence of death requires the unanimous vote of all 12 jurors.
The additional $2.5 million in insider trading profits was unlikely to have a significant effect on the ultimate sentence, so prosecutors did not give up much to get a case resolved without having to go to trial.
He has never stopped talking about both the Shabab and the Qaeda branch in Yemen, officials say, and he knows that his ultimate sentence will depend on his cooperation.
He said he could remain on bail in the meantime, but warned: "It must, however, be fully understood that in terms of the ultimate sentence, nothing must be read into that".
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Ms. Hanaway, who initially had sought a 30-year sentence, said that although sentencing guidelines suggested that prison terms be served simultaneously, the judge had ultimate sentencing discretion.
"I don't know," he said, "that we want to have the ultimate sentencing decision in the hands of a jury".
Ms. Lewis would later describe Ms. Allred as "a terrier," explaining that she hoped to affect a judge's ultimate sentencing of Mr. Polanski in that 1977 case with her own story of what she said happened to her in 1982.
Complex fraud cases rarely go to trial, so the ultimate sentences are the subject of plea bargains.
Trumpcare may be their ultimate death sentence.
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