Sentences with phrase «manifestly unfit»

(2) Did the Divisional Court err in determining that the penalty imposed by the Discipline Committee was manifestly unfit?

The Crown appealed, asserting that the sentence was manifestly unfit, but recently abandoned the appeal without comment.

In a section of the lengthy ruling entitled «The trial judge erred in his overall approach to sentencing and imposed a sentence that is manifestly unfit,» the appeal panel states: «To be sure, terrorism is a crime unto itself.

In Buck v. Bell (1927), the majority decision, written by Chief Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., used modern opinions of science to support the Virginia sterilization law: «It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime, or let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from breeding their kind.

The court's majority opinion was written by Oliver Wendell Holmes: «It is better for all the world,» Holmes wrote, «if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime, or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind.

--RRB- In principle, the Electoral college also serves as safeguard against someone manifestly unfit from becoming President.

Not exact matches

This allows for appellate review for error in principle and for whether the sentence is demonstrably unfit or manifestly wrong.