Sentences with phrase «imposed after a trial»

That means for the data to be valuable, the database would have to include information on what kind of sentences a judge accepts from a plea bargain, as well as the sentences imposed after trial.

** While it is not entirely clear, this analysis appears to be based upon sentences imposed after a trial rather than after a guilty plea.

Not exact matches

The Chinese government continues to impose death sentences for crimes that don't warrant it under Chinese law, such as drug - trafficking or financial crimes, and after unfair trials, the report states.

There are few times that a court imposes such restrictions on jurors (perhaps for their own safety in gang or mafia trials) after a trial.

Certainly a Notice imposing discipline after a trial is a concrete adverse action, as is the signing of a waiver to avoid more severe discipline.

After affirming the trial judge's decision that Mr. Allen was actually terminated on October 14, 2009, the Court of Appeal for British Columbia cited with approval the decision of Bowes v. Goss Power Products Ltd., 2012 ONCA 425, (canvassed by this blog in the post Fix the Duty to Mitigate) in which the Court of Appeal for Ontario held that if an employment contract provides for a fixed severance package there is no duty on the employee to mitigate his damages, and held that as Mr. Allen's employment agreement did not impose a duty to mitigate, the trial judge properly found he was therefore entitled to the balance owing for 15 months» salary and benefits in lieu of notice as damages for breach of contract.

A rare coalition of conservative and liberal justices ruled 6 - 3 in Southern Union Co. v. United States, 11 — 94, that the Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial requires a jury to determine facts to support a sentence imposed after a guilty verdict...

In mediation parties are not bound by the law, but can fashion their own settlement terms without regard to what a judge might impose upon them based on the law after trial.