Prosecutors can believe, or state, all they want that a long sentence for Jiau is a message for Wall Street, but there is no support that long sentences deter other people from committing crimes.
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In reviewing court records, Ms. Berger fought with prosecutors from before her indictment until she was finally sentenced March 5, 2013, as to why she was being singled out for such a long sentence when the others involved had received something significantly less.
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At age 17, fearing a potentially long sentence, the college football prospect followed the advice of his attorney and pleaded no contest to assaulting a Long Beach, California, high school classmate in 2002.
The judge sentenced him to no less than 1 to 3 years in jail, a pretty long sentence at that age.
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The authorities have warned that without his co-operation and a guilty plea the case could be treated as terrorism and he could face a long jail sentence.
Interestingly, the prosecutor and magistrate today both raised, in abstract terms, the possibility of the charges against Oscar Pistorius being reduced from murder to culpable homicide - something which could mean a fine or suspended sentence rather than a long jail term.
After being asked to type in a five-sentence-long code sequence, the students get restless and start cracking jokes.
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Alongside these civilities, he could also terminate long friendships in a single sentence.
The Journal editorial plucked one sentence from a long interview Khosla gave the San Francisco Chronicle last week and blew it out of proportion.
Sinclair, who has a long history of sexual violence and is currently serving a life sentence for the murder of Mary Gallacher in 1978, is suspected of being a serial killer who is also responsible for the deaths of at least six other women, including Ms Scott and Ms Eadie.
Indeed, so long as Skilling receives a sentence on equal terms as Ebbers', the justice system will have achieved parity.
The Speaker of the House sent us a proposal that was two pages long that included one sentence on revenue.
However, in the insider trading case of James Fleishman of the expert network firm Primary Global, a jury conviction and a government recommended sentence of 84-108 months was not enough to convince presiding Judge Rakoff that a long prison term was appropriate.
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Jeremy Jenkins, for Chidgey, argued at the appeal hearing that the sentence was too long and succeeded in winning a reduction.
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The judge, Recorder RA Britton warned him he would "get a custodial sentence - it is just a matter of how long".
Say won't have to serve his sentence as long as he doesn't commit a similar crime within the next five years.
Failure of a test usually means an instant short spell in jail, and it is hoped that such a dramatic sentence will shock people out of re-offending - thereby reducing long-term prison numbers and cutting off alcohol-related crime at the source.
Whether the artist deserves to be mentioned in the same sentence as the long-time stars of the art world is a matter of personal taste, but the sale of "Chinese Girl" appears to have cemented his reputation as a commercial, if not critical, success.
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Dr Kevorkian, whose medical licence was suspended long ago, was also convicted of delivering a controlled substance, which carries a maximum sentence of seven years in prison.
It took the professor a long time to arrive at an insight shared by legions of pet owners who haven't tried to impose sentence structure on their pets.
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