Sentences with phrase «of reduced sentences»

He also said the alleged prostitutes will be prosecuted differently than those charged with promoting prostitution including the possibility of reduced sentences.

The weapon crafting is convoluted and hidden behind walls of awkwardly assembled menus, and the process of reducing your sentence or spending points on Entitlements or gear (go with gear, friends) can be a bit of a slog.

The now former employee's union representative advised the employer of the reduced sentence.

So even in a case where there are significant arguments to make in favour of a reduced sentence for the accused, the Court took no mercy.

Not exact matches

In defending his record, Sessions is likely to point to his vote to confirm Eric Holder as the country's first black attorney general and to his co-sponsorship of the Fair Sentencing Act, which sought to reduce racial disparities in how black and white drug offenders are treated.

In it, he wrote, «Task Force subcommittees will also undertake a review of existing policies in the areas of charging, sentencing, and marijuana to ensure consistency with the Department's overall strategy on reducing violent crime and with Administration goals and priorities.»

HOUSTON — A possible agreement that could reduce the prison sentence of former Enron Corp..

I would also propose that God is not a Christian, and that reading or hearing Bible sentences is not a requirement of «salvation» — lest we reduce the cross to mere words.

IF the torture law was seen to work, and there was a dramatic decrease in violent crimes because bad people realized that they were okay with a death sentence, but 25 years of electric niple clamps was more than they were willing to take on, then the government could make the case that they enacted the will of the people by reducing crime.

On Christmas Day, Indonesia reduced the sentences of over 9,000 Christian prisoners.

With regard to the meaning of the last sentence, I do agree with David Boucher's interpretation of reducing its meaning to being a reference to the following term's lectures.36 In my view, however, it is the last but one sentence which is of utmost importance here, referring as it does to Collingwood's concept of objective idealism, as elaborated in «Realism and Idealism» and adumbrated in «The Function of Metaphysics in Civilization.

But even the most «scholastic» theology of the late Middle Ages did not entirely reduce revelation to a set of sentences.

A new court ruling out of White County has approved a state - run program that offers a 30 - day reduced sentence to prison inmates if they agree to undergo a long - term (in some cases, permanent) form of contraception.

[It's interesting that this sentence reduces men to creatures — I think this reductive aspect of this teaching should annoy men more than it seems to.]

The London - born toddler's mother, 26 - year - old Sindyann Regis, was jailed for 40 months for allowing the death of a child but had her sentence reduced to 28 months on appeal.

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«A lot of people have over-simplified the environment issues in attempting to reduce them to one - sentence do «s and do n`ts, «says John Goodman, president of the National Center for Policy Analysis in Dallas.

The crucial point is that any act, which reduced the sentencing for, say, possession of marijuana would have to explicitly state that it is being applied retroactively in order to automatically release people from prison (a physical and administrative act that, itself, may take a while).

This amended a number of previous acts to reduce the disparity in sentencing for those found in possession of crack cocaine as opposed to powder cocaine.

A military court sentenced him to death on a charge of sedition which was later reduced to 20 years in jail.

The idea raised today that prisoners could learn their way to reduced sentences, while serving the rest of it at home under curfew with electronic monitoring, would be a good start.

Whenever, between the time of the final judgment in a criminal case and the time the sentence is fully served, a law is enacted that stipulates a lighter penalty, the original sentencing shall be reduced to the special maximum of the new sentencing if the previous one exceeded that special maximum.

We will continue to ensure that serious and dangerous offenders are managed effectively and their risk is reduced through appropriate use of prison and then through the multi-agency public protection arrangements... Any adult who commits a crime using a knife can expect to be sent to prison, and serious offenders can expect a long sentence.

Meantime, in a bid to reduce prison congestion in the state, 789 offenders were sentenced to different hours of community services across the magistrate districts in the state.

It also calls for replacing short jail sentences — those of under a year can be served at Rikers rather than upstate — with programs to reduce recidivism for $ 5 million a year, but offers no details on what the programs would entail.

Jacobs promised to prove charges of conspiracy and accepting bribes with videos, audio and emails, along with the testimony of a former assemblyman who collected evidence against Stevenson to try to earn a reduced sentence for his own plea to public corruption charges.

Now that word has leaked that convicted former lobbyist Richard Lipsky is cooperating with federal authorities in hopes of reducing his jail sentence, «no - good» elected officials wringing their hands, looking over their shoulders, and treating their cellphones like «live» grenades.

It was hoped the Clarke plan would reduce the length of sentences dished out in order make large savings and increase convictions.

Abimbola in the statement said that 13 convicts had their life sentences reduced to a term of years, having spent considerable terms in prison, while one person had his death sentence commuted to a life sentence.

The way we construct sentences can also help reduce misunderstandings, he explained: «It's a good idea to put important information first because we are more likely to miss unusual words when they are near the end of a sentence.

The report, «Community Sentencing - Reducing Re-offending, Changing Lives», could be the first step towards an overhaul of the government's sentenciSentencing - Reducing Re-offending, Changing Lives», could be the first step towards an overhaul of the government's sentencingsentencing policy.

Ms Mercy Gyamaa, leader of the Inmates, appealed to the President to intervene on their behalf and ensure that sentences imposed on first female offenders were reduced.

«In particular, short prison sentences that do nothing to tackle the underlying causes of crime are particularly ineffective at reducing re-offending.

The prison population can be safely reduced by curbing inflation in sentencing, calling a halt to any unnecessary use of custodial remand and investing in effective community penalties.»

«At the end of the day I've got a lifetime of accomplishments that is being overlooked when people reduce my life and my career of public service down to soundbites, and a few sentences,» she said, adding, «What they overlook is the fact that I've got a reputation here and I encourage people to look at the editorials from when I was running for Congress.»

He faces up to 30 years in prison and nine years of supervised release when he's sentenced on Feb 25 — although he's likely to get a significantly reduced sentence.

Michael Paige, whose father, Peter Paige, was killed in the robbery along with two Nyack cops, said Cuomo hadn't properly considered the impact of his decision to reduce the sentence of Judith Clark.

A second bill sponsored by Crespo reduces the maximum sentence for misdemeanor offenses by one day from one year to 364 days, an apparent technicality that could potentially spare thousands of immigrants from deportation under federal law over certain lesser offenses.

Prosecutors say that Espada and his son (also named Pedro) will be offered plea deals for reduced sentences in exchange for admission of wrongdoing — but knowing the Espadas, who pleaded not guilty to the original charges, they're probably not going to give an inch.

Depending on the severity of their potential charges, ability to cooperate and relevant knowledge, they could get immunity or a potential reduced sentence to help nab a bigger player.

NY Times reports that a federal judge reduced the prison sentence of former Assemblyman Brian McLaughlin for his help in the criminal prosecutions of former state Sen. Carl Kruger and former Assemblyman Anthony Seminerio: http://goo.gl/7jT9mS

On Oct. 27 of last year, appeals court judge Karen Peters reduced Dixon's sentence and did away with his criminal record.

NY Times reports that a federal judge reduced the prison sentence of former Assemblyman Brian McLaughlin for his help in the criminal prosecutions of former state Sen. Carl... Continue reading →

An outspoken liberal, he championed efforts to reduce sentences for non-violent drug offenders — which Donovan opposed while he was head of the state District Attorneys Association.

Further, they argue that diversion and alternative sentencing would reduce the impact of the influx of teen offenders.

Mr Clarke defended the plan to halve jail sentences for people who plead guilty early and said rape cases were the «strongest example» of why he supported the idea, because it would reduce the trauma for victims.

McLaughlin, who got his 10 - year sentence reduced to six years after cooperating with prosecutors to bring down other dirty pols, is now out of jail.

The pardon plan also comes amid a national debate over reducing sentences for nonviolent offenders, in part because of the cost of mass incarceration and concerns about racial inequality in the criminal justice system.

She acknowledges the progress made by reducing brutal mandatory sentencing and zero - tolerance interpretations of the law but believes we have further to go by increasing research funding and expanding treatment programs.

The number of false convictions among the death - sentenced has been particularly hard to estimate, Gross says, because many prisoners who are on death row are eventually moved off of it but remain in prison, which often reduces their chances of exoneration.