Exempel på sentencing

• Her sentence was commuted from death to life imprisonment.

• As it was her first conviction for stealing, she was given a less severe sentence.

• In some countries, drug-smuggling still carries the death sentence.

• The judge made an example of him and gave him the maximum possible sentence.

• He won his appeal and the sentence was halved.

• Should the case be solved, the amnesty (if appropriate) could only be applied at sentencing, not before.

• The low sentencing rate in libel cases tells us nothing about the intense legal pressure thus brought to bear on the accused.

• This was most obvious in debt suits involving conditional bonds, which had a high sentencing rate.

• I believe that enhanced sentencing is pure preventive detention imposed under the guise of criminal punishment.

• Sentencing policies cannot be drafted or implemented in a vacuum.

• In sentencing there is no room for error, since errors affect human life.

• But the retributive principle we are imagining is not concerned with what is clocked up on the sentencing aggregate.

• Neither did analysis of court sentencing point conclusively to preferential treatment of women over men, though there were some indications of greater leniency.

• From 1595 to 1627 a complete female/male sentencing reversal took place.

• Most surveys show that people consistently underestimate the severity of sentencing.

• During one period of intensive prosecution, from 1808 through 1812, the sentencing rate in libel cases was only 20 per cent.

• Law's moral power may be realised through sentencing by developing the capacity for judicial discretionary decision-making to shape social reality.

• The second is the sentencing, to which epistemological shortcomings are irrelevant.

• That the university courts were concerned to limit the effects of a dispute is also evident in their sentencing practices.

• There is no sentencing, no jail cell at the end of a long corridor waiting to swing shut with a deafening, metallic clang.