On Tuesday, Mr Clarke told MPs mandatory sentencing was "rather an American thing" and to have a situation in which, for example, a 13 was automatically imprisoned without a judge being able to use his discretion would "rather go against how we normally approach the sentencing of juveniles".

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However, the judge said the controlees would not automatically succeed - or necessarily be paid damages - if they did decide to sue.

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What is needed is a way to analyze information automatically (or at least semi-automatically, with some human review) to judge its business value.

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The retired chief judge of the Mississippi State Court of Appeals needed to break 4:10 to automatically qualify for a return trip to Boston to run in the 2014 marathon.

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