Sentences with phrase «less time in jail»

Less time in jail for defendants also means less chance the officers will have to deal with the possibility of injury or health problems that can occur on their watches.

But campaigners complained that the men were being sentenced to less time in jail than the family have spent struggling to get justice.

Not exact matches

He could receive a maximum of five years (no sentencing date has been set), but it's more likely that if Judge Edward Coleman sentences him to any jail time at all, it will be less than a year, which would be served in county jail instead of in a state penitentiary.

So far I believe no one has served any jail time, and if anyone did it was less than a year, Our jails are full of people who wish «Cover UP: Cuomo was the DA so they to cculd get a sweet deal, but they are the moneyless and powerless, not like Steven Ratter, or Ray Harding, or the others that have been given Get out of jail cards, paid a fine, and send I will help you in your investigation to get Hank Morris who is becoming more and more the fall guy, as they say somebody has to go to jail so why not good old Hank Morris.

A sampling of the findings suggests that high quality preschool results in fewer years of special education, less grade retention, a higher percentage of high school completion, decreased chance of being arrested or spending time in jail, fewer sexual partners and abortions, higher adult monthly earnings, and less time spent on welfare.

A separate study of the integration program in North Carolina's Charlotte - Mecklenburg county schools showed that at - risk students who were able to attend their school of choice were less likely to commit a violent crime or spend time in jail.

Rather than a fixed period of time — for example, six months imprisonment on conviction for theft — an indeterminate sentence allowed a magistrate to impose a sentence of up to two years less a day, with the length of that sentence to be determined by the offender's conduct in jail.

Second & Third Offense: Class 4 Felony, punishable by no less than 30 days in jail, 3 - 7 years in an Illinois state prison, $ 25,000 in fines, added time to your license suspension, and / or total revocation of your driver's license.

Fourth & Subsequent: Class 4 Felony, punishable by no less than 180 days in jail, 3 - 7 years in an Illinois state prison, $ 25,000 in fines, added time to your license suspension, and / or total revocation of your driver's license.

If you are convicted for indecent exposure you will face time in jail and will be required to register as a sex offender for no less than ten years.

That being said, unauthorized disclosures by the former are already occurring, but they are occurring in a complete legal vacuum where people like Snowden have less of an incentive to be careful with the scope of their disclosures since they know they are already facing either jail time or exile regardless of the public value of the leaked information.

News stories this fortnight have, for example, reported on poor people with diabetes being 10 times more likely to lose a limb than those who are better off, children with jailed family members experiencing poorer health in later life, and children who are intellectually stimulated being less likely to develop Alzheimer's.