Sentences with phrase «choices at sentencing»

At the risk of appearing «appallingly ignorant or naive,» it is not at all clear to me that judges must or should make policy choices at sentencing.

I'm curious: for those individuals who say that judges «shouldn't make policy choices at sentencing,» what do you thinks motivates this thinking?

Not exact matches

Some were given a one - sentence reminder — which remained at the top of their computer screens as they completed a survey — that their environmental choices might make them either proud or guilty.

Looking at the choices, I'm pretty sure the sentence has to start with «No» because that is the only word which is in title case.

Teaching Points: • Students will need some prior knowledge of what it means to extend a sentence and the role that adjectives can play in this • Students should be encouraged to use as many colours as possible to colour their pictures I have added some extras to give students and teachers an element of choice - Differentiation: • Alternative handwriting lines • A second bordered page for students who wish to write at length • The photo section provides more difficult vocabulary and could lead more able writers towards a «what happened next» story writing style, should the teacher wish to lead them in this direction • An editable version of all content has been provided for the teacher to make vocabulary choices.

Line editing is meant for finished manuscripts that have been revised at the overall plot and characterization level but are in need of guidance on style, sentence structure, word choice, and other readability aspects.

(Please be aware that your novel may still be at the first draft stage, even if you've written several drafts... Many new authors fiddle with sentence structure and word choice, and imagine that they're writing a draft.

Doug Berman at Sentencing Law and Policy Blog picks up on this story, as does White Collar Crime Blog, which commends Urbina for «recognizing that an individual who decides to go to trial should not be punished simply by making this choice.

And, according to Judge Barron, ultimately judges «have no choice but to approve mandatory «forever» sentences under § 924 (c) so long as they can hypothesize a rational reason for the legislature to have thought that the underlying criminal conduct was as serious as the large quantity drug possession at issue in Harmelin.»

The authors of The Behavior of Federal Judges A Theoretical and Empirical Study of Rational Choice, discussed in the last post, looked at the important question of the behavior of federal district judges when they sentence people.