At the point he informed on Horner, he was facing a minimum sentence of 15 years for trafficking.
Mr Justice Owen recommended Martin serve a minimum sentence of nine years in a report to Home Secretary Jack Straw.
Since then, no prisoner given an OLR has been freed, no matter how short their so-called punishment part, or minimum sentence.
The minimum sentence given to a man who murdered an office worker will not be changed, the Court of Appeal has ruled.
In another case, some commissioners wanted to give judges greater discretion in sentencing for residential burglary, which under Illinois law carries a four-year minimum sentence.
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The Old Bailey judge also gave Edgington a minimum sentence of 20 years, which will run concurrently, for the attempted murder of Kerry Clark, 22.
Currently, someone charged with holding 5 grams of crack that's 10 to 50 doses faces a mandatory minimum sentence of five years with no parole.
The consumption charge holds a minimum sentence of four years.
There was no mandatory minimum sentence under prior federal law.
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Of those IPP prisoners who had passed their minimum sentence, some 276 of these were still behind bars more than two years later as of 5 February this year.
Instead, they exercised their prerogative to find the doctor guilty of second-degree murder, which requires no evidence of premeditation and carries a minimum sentence of ten years in prison and a maximum of 25.
Under the changes, the minimum sentence for gang rape, rape of a minor, rape by policemen or a person in authority will be doubled to 20 years and can be extended to life without parole.
On top of the 14 counts of manslaughter, they face 20 counts of attempted manslaughter, as well as using a machine gun to commit a crime of violence, a charge that carries a 30-year minimum sentence.
Under the changes, the minimum sentence for gang rape, rape of a minor, rape by policemen or a person in authority will be doubled to 20 years from 10 and can be extended to life without parole.
And in 2010, President Obama signed into law the Fair Sentencing Act, which made progress in reducing the 100-to-1 disparity between sentences for powder and crack cocaine that disproportionately affected minorities and also eliminated the mandatory minimum sentence for simple possession of crack cocaine.
The minimum prison sentence will be three years, according to Abu Dhabi-based newspaper, The National.
Questioning the integrity of the king would carry a minimum prison sentence of 10 years, according to Amnesty.
Their lawyers are asking the court to set a minimum term sentence instead.
Because a determinate prisoner is released at the half way point in his sentence, a life sentence with a minimum term is the equivalent of a determinate sentence of double that length.
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Last week the killer, who is serving a life sentence with a minimum of 21 years behind bars, was handed a further 30-month sentence for breaching the terms of the sex offenders' register.
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At an earlier hearing, he was given an indeterminate sentence for a minimum of six years for the latest crime, to run concurrently with his life sentence.
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Anwar was given a minimum 23-year sentence for the killing in 2008 of Sanam Navsarka.
But the judge said because they were found in association with drug activity, she had to impose a minimum five-year sentence.
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The bill would allow federal judges to bypass federal mandatory minimum sentences if the sentence is too lengthy or if it simply does not fit the crime.
Home Secretary Theresa May used newly-introduced powers which allow foreign prisoners who have served the minimum part of their sentence to be deported if they have no right to remain in the country.
Though his sentence is far shorter than the more than 400 years he could have faced for molesting ten children over a 15-year period, the 68-year-old will likely spend the rest of his life behind bars because he cannot be released on parole before his minimum 30-year sentence is served.
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