Sentences with phrase «lenient punishment»

You collect extenuating and mitigating facts that may help negotiate a reasonable plea agreement and present those factors to the sentencing judge to call for a more lenient punishment before the judge as the sentence hearing, distinguishing this client and this case from more aggravated situations.

Runcie has said people are conflating PROMISE with the district's full range of discipline policies, assuming administrators assign the relatively lenient punishment to students who commit felonies.

It will be remembered for Ed Miliband asking tough questions about Ken Clarke's very unfortunate remarks on Five Live about rape victims and proposed more lenient punishment of rapists.

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The judge says he and Ouellet plan to steal a page from British Columbia's approach, in which accused are offered the most lenient punishments possible in exchange for a guilty plea, and given 120 days to consider it.

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Twitter and the UK press are losing it over a model who was given a lenient sentence in court for attempting to steal almost # 1,000 of luxury goods from Harrods — despite her punishment being nothing out of the ordinary.

Opposition to capital punishment need not be sentimental, lenient, or even sympathetic toward the convicted.

In principle it is perfectly compatible with views of punishment harsher than those normally practiced toward convicted criminals (murderers or otherwise), but whether one's general attitude concerning punishment tends toward the severe or the lenient, the basic fact of the Cain story as a paradigm is the preservation of a guilty life.

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Sun Zhengcai, a former top Communist Party official once seen as a possible successor to Chinese President Xi Jinping, received a life sentence on corruption charges — a punishment state media portrayed as lenient.

Yuko knows who killed her child, but the punishment of juvenile offenders in Japan is far too lenient for her taste.

Of course, the second article STILL gives the white Australian tourists the benefit of the doubt and paints them as the victims just because they had to wear a sign around their necks, a punishment more lenient than what they would have received for theft in their own country.

In Canada, the continuing overemphasis on incarceration may be partly due to the perception that the restorative approach is a more lenient approach to crime and that imprisonment constitutes the ultimate punishment.