Hindawi became eligible for parole in 2001 after serving one third of his sentence, and must be released on parole no later than 2016.
He could choose a fast-track, closed-door trial that would entitle him to a one-third reduction of his sentence if convicted.
On mandatory sentencing, I live in Western Australia where we were so fed up with the level of crime and the pathetic sentences handed out that a regulation requiring a prison sentence for a third instance of breaking and entering was forced on parliament.
It could be a death sentence for those living in the third world.
In Ghana in 2008, around one-half of young women and one-third of young men could not read a sentence even though they had spent six years in school.
Mr Sweeney, originally from Merseyside but lived in London, was serving a life sentence for the attempted murder of a third girlfriend but had been the prime suspect in the killings, the court was told.
Born in Soviet Georgia in 1937, he received his first prison sentence in 1957 for resisting arrest and, during his third in the 1960s, became a "thief in law", a Russian term comparable to a Mafia "godfather".
He faces a third count of conspiring to transmit that information, which carries a maximum sentence of five years.
He who publicly, verbally or in writing or image, deliberately expresses himself in an way insulting of a group of people because of their race, their religion or belief, or their hetero- or homosexual nature or their physical, mental, or intellectual disabilities, will be punished with a prison sentence of at the most one year or a fine of third category.
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He who publicly, verbally or in writing or in an image, incites hatred against or discrimination of people or violent behaviour against person or property of people because of their race, their religion or belief, their gender or hetero- or homosexual nature or their physical, mental, or intellectual disabilities, will be punished with a prison sentence of at the most one year or a fine of third category.
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Even if Anwar gets a one-third remission for good behavior and serves just four years out of the six-year sentence for abuse of power, he will still face a five-year ban on running for public office after his release.
In the third grade, we were told to figure out its purpose based on the rest of the sentence and the related events in the story.
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