Because it is not uncommon for sentencing to be postponed for an extended period to allow a defendant to cooperate with the government in an ongoing investigation, the rule would allow the order of forfeiture to become final as to the defendant before sentencing, if the defendant agrees to that procedure.
Chain ultimately spent only one night in county jail, and the recall campaign, along with local prosecutors, said Persky's sentencing was uncommon for this type of offense.
Such cases, in which a defendant with lesser culpability draws the harshest sentence, are not uncommon in Arizona, and elsewhere around the country.
Three-strikes laws and other formulas forced judges to impose life without parole, a sentence that was uncommon in the United States before the 1970s.
"Don't use overly complicated sentence structures or uncommon words.
It is uncommon to successfully appeal a sentence in the first place, he said.
It was not uncommon for people to be sentenced to years in work camps for "disseminating" three or four copies of underground literature.
The defendant, Claudio Sciarpelletti, 48, a computer analyst with the Vatican's Secretariat of State, is the second Vatican employee to be sentenced in an uncommon breach of security at an institution known for its secrecy.
Lashing sentences are not uncommon in Iran, but many are not carried out.
In West Papua it is not uncommon for people to receive prison sentences of up to 15 years for raising their national flag.
Once again citing research confirming the reduced culpability and impetuosity of youth, the Court banned the sentence for all but the rare and uncommon juvenile who was permanently incorrigible or irretrievably depraved.
