Sentences with phrase «full sentencing discretion»
NOTE: When I say that «didn't pan out», I mean that judges still don't have full sentencing discretion, although it has been pointed out to me that they have more than they used to before reforms were undertaken).
http://www.nystateofpolitics.com/ Not exact matches
'' [t] he judge will... be forced to decide in advance of trial — and without hearing the evidence — whether he will forgo entirely his judicial discretion to impose some sentence of imprisonment and abandon his responsibility to consider the full range of punishments established by the legislature.
Ms. Giroux had pled to the full offence of trafficking — the issue was not whether she was guilty of the relevant state of mind but, rather, whether her lack of knowledge in fact should be mitigating enough such that a court could appropriately use its discretion to reduce the sentence.
The letter states the NFL is offering its «full support» of the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act of 2017, which seeks reforms and targets enhanced mandatory minimums for prior drug felons, increases judicial discretion for sentencing, and reforms enhanced mandatory minimums and Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act of 2017, which seeks reforms and targets enhanced mandatory minimums for prior drug felons, increases judicial discretion for sentencing, and reforms enhanced mandatory minimums and sentencing, and reforms enhanced mandatory minimums and sentences.