Sentences with phrase «policy judgments informed»
But beyond this legal realist premise, it dawns on me that all judicial sentencing decisions plainly are, at some level, policy judgments informed by views on just punishment, crime control, procedural fairness, and other express and implicit considerations.
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In January, a spokesperson said that staffers accepting payment from authorities to inform on customers «would violate company policy,» calling it «purely poor individual judgment.»
They will breathe the air of careful thinking and acquire a greater understanding of the genuine difficulty of making sound, informed judgments in education policy.
The policy which permits media reporting on judicial proceedings depends on (i) the right of the public to be informed about a significant public act of the state, and (ii) the law's recognition that the way in which the story is presented is a matter of editorial judgment.