In the crack cocaine case, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, in Richmond, Va., said judges did not have the authority to reject a guidelines sentence on the basis of their own disagreement with the underlying sentencing policy.
A chunk of reasoning in natural language is correct if the forms underlying the sentences constitute a valid or deducible argument.
What lifts the book into something rather more interesting is the intelligence underlying those unshowy sentences and the way O'Faolain herself signals her awareness of the potential pitfalls.
What Bonfiglioli fumbles with plot he makes up for with superb quoting material.What elevates this trilogy to the status of an unsung classic is the original philosophy underlying its catchy sentences.
Thus, regardless of whether the underlying grammar of the sentence "Stealing is wrong" expresses a proposition, regardless of whether the utterance of this sentence is typically used to express a belief, so long as someone is licensed in uttering the sentence then the appending of the truth predicate will not be inappropriate.
If, as seems plausible, the underlying truths for the sentence are just propositions stating what physical objects are in the vicinity of Jupiter and what their motions are, then the sentence is ontologically committed only to those physical objects, not to numbers.
DealBook » The Challenge of Sentencing White-Collar Defendants | A recent appeals court decision reflects an underlying tension in the sentencing white-collar criminals who present no real threat of physical harm to society and continue to lead productive lives after committing a crime, Peter J. Henning writes in the White Collar Watch column.
Exploratory factor analysis (102 males, 118 females) and confirmatory factor analysis (123 males, 200 females) yielded a four-factor multi-dimensional measure that differentiates between attitudes toward justice and vengeance, as well as between different dimensions underlying these motives (vengeance-sentence, vengeance-emotion, justice-fairness, justice-legal).
The five-year sentence would be in addition to the sentence provided for the underlying crime.
Speculation being what it is, a sentencing range of 15 years, barring an underlying state detainer or conviction, will most likely result in him being housed at a low- or medium-security federal prison (called Federal Correctional Institutions or FCIs).
