Sentences with phrase «year sentence recommended»
The court Tuesday upheld the 42 - month prison sentence of former Impath Inc. chief operating officer Richard Adelson, despite an 85 - year sentence recommended by the guidelines.
http://sentencing.typepad.com/ Not exact matches
The two - year prison sentence came as somewhat of a surprise as prosecutors had recommended a two - year suspended sentence.
If she had cut off by the time she was forming rudimentary sentences (like the poster said above) I would have cut her off at 16 months (much less than the minimum 2 years recommended by the WHO).
Instead, Albany County Court Judge Thomas Breslin sentenced her to 5 years probation as recommended by the county Probation Department.
U.S. prosecutors are recommending that former New York state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver receive a sentence «substantially in excess» of 10 years in prison for his conviction on federal corruption charges late last year.
New sentencing guidelines published today recommend jail sentences of at least seven years for dangerous drivers who cause death on the roads.
At the Tuesday afternoon sentencing of Mr. Silver, Federal District Court Judge Valerie Caproni referred to his age of 72 as why she wouldn't go by the recommended sentence of roughly 22 to 27 years.
(The longest one the government cited was the 14 years behind bars given to former Democratic assemblyman William F. Boyland Jr.) Sentencing guidelines recommended a term of roughly between 22 and 27 years, but Judge Valerie Caproni said a sentence in that range would be «draconian and unjust» given 71 - year - old Silver's age.
Vargas made the comment following Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson's March 23 public announcement that he was recommending Liang — who faces up to 15 years prison — receive a no - jail sentence.
He's asked the judge to sentence Silver to substantially more than the 10 years in prison that was recommended by the court's probation office.
«Rape should not be met with light sentencing; the minimum sentence of 25 years is highly recommended.
U.S. prosecutors are recommending that former New York state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver receive a sentence «substantially in excess» of 10 years in prison...
They wrote that they had no quarrel with the probation office's calculation of federal sentencing guidelines — which called for 21 years and 10 months on the low end and 27 years and three months on the high — and they felt he deserved much more than the 10 years the office recommended.
In cooperation with federal partners, and in light of the fact that Huntley faces an 18 - 24 month prison sentence, prosecutors recommended a sentence of five years probation in exchange for her felony guilty plea.
Boyland Jr., who represented a district comprising of Bushwick, Crown Heights, Bedford - Stuyvesant and Brownsville, was sentenced this past September to 14 years in federal prison — less than the 20 - year term requested by prosecutors and recommended by federal sentencing guidelines, according to the Times.
As part of the plea agreement federal prosecutors told the court that they would drop all but one of the twenty fraud charges listed in Byrd - Bennett's indictment and that although she faced a maximum of 20 years on each of 20 fraud counts, they would recommend a prison sentence of no more than seven 7 1/2 years if she continued to «cooperate with federal investigators.»
He says the report likely recommended 50 years (a) to reflect Madoff's decision to plead guilty and avoid the cost of trial or (b) because it was double the 25 years given to Bernie Ebbers, who was involved in what was previously believed to be the biggest corporate fraud sentenced in New York.
At his Sentencing Law Blog, Douglas Berman explains that the 150 - year sentence departs from the recommended term of 50 years in the pre-sentencing report.
Although none of that sentencing range is a mandatory minimum range, any jury that convicts for such a crime will then recommend a sentence, after being told the five to forty year sentencing range, without ever being told that any of the five years can be reduced by the sentencing judge.
The second option would change the charge to a misdemeanor with a maximum one - year sentence, and the State would recommend a 90 - day prison sentence.
While the Crown had pushed a dangerous offender designation, Paxton's lawyer had recommended a six - to eight - year sentence — minus six years of credit for time served.
«You have effectively been convicted of treason,» said Justice Colin McKinnon, telling Alizadeh he had «no hesitation» in sentencing him to the 24 - year prison term recommended by Crown and defence lawyers.
This is demonstrated in chapter 3 of this report, as well as by the fact that the Committee on the Rights of the Child recommended in 1997 that mandatory sentencing laws be repealed - some four years before similar recommendations were made by the CERD and the Human Rights Committee.