He was convicted of murdering a farmer and a policeman in 1989, but the sentence was overturned on appeal.
Second, I understand the words of the very next sentence, but the sentence itself really makes no sense to me.
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Judge Shaw said that the case did pass the custody threshold, but the sentence would be suspended for a year.
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The maximum punishment for second-degree murder is a life sentence, but the sentence is left to the discretion of the court.
The charges may be surreal, but the sentence will be real enough.
But the sentence was viewed as far too low by the Solicitor General, Oliver Heald, who referred the case to three senior judges.
The UK government says it too welcomes the verdict but not the death sentence handed down to Saeed Sheikh.
Marcus Weaver, who was shot and injured in the theater, said he believed life in prison was the proper sentence but that the consensus among the victims was in favor of the death penalty.
But isn't the real point not the sentence but Brasillach's conviction?
It didn't get the cash back, but the court vacated the conviction and sentence (including an additional order of restitution) and dismissed the original indictment.
He was originally given a community service order for committing the assault but refused to comply with the sentence and was then sent to prison by Manchester magistrates.
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' You merely have to say that sentence out loud to see that it is not English, but sounds like the awkward sentence of a recently arrived foreigner.
But the court could also sentence Breivik under a provision called "preventive detention, " which also has a maximum of 21 years but can be prolonged in five year increments after that -- which means the court can detain Breivik indefinitely after his sentence if he is found to be a continued threat to the public.
He was allowed out for the talks, and the Sierra Leonean government has indicated that it will annul the death sentence but only if the peace talks succeed.
He tried to avoid criminal charges, claiming that his act was a legitimate political protest, but finally received the jail sentence.
He could have chosen to apply for a stay on the sentence but lawyers told the court he decided to serve out his term.
But Scotland Yard warned the sentence should be a warning to those who condone or stay silent about the mistreatment of women in their communities.
But the fact that no defendant received the death sentence, the maximum penalty for espionage, helped to ward off the kind of diplomatic action that some western governments had initially threatened.
He faces up to a 15-year sentence, but will be allowed to argue that the sentence should be satisfied by the seven years he has been in custody.
But the court in Taipei reduced his sentence from life imprisonment to 20 years, saying the amount embezzled was less than previously ruled.
You can't make the reader love you in the first sentence or paragraph, but you can lose the reader right away.
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He has always maintained he was promised a short sentence, but he fled the US after hearing rumours that the judge was about to re-sentence him for a much longer term.
The court on Thursday reduced his sentence to five years but said the circumstances and nature of offense was so serious that Mr. Dutt cannot be released on probation.
On the other hand, that explosion of paparazzi flashbulbs and television cameras reminds one not just of the inevitable public interest but also that the adjustment period after a prison sentence is very difficult.
I'm going to sentence to him a to a year, but I'm going to suspend the sentence, that is I'm not going to make him go to jail, and I'm going to impose probation.
But those convictions and the related sentence were tossed out Thursday by a federal appeals court judge.
But in China, the first sentence people say to a foreigner is, 'I'm sorry my English is poor.
In March 2013, India's Supreme Court upheld his conviction, but reduced his sentence from the earlier six years to five years.
"It deals with complex subject matter, but in a single sentence the law authorized the courts to go off" and create a body of interpretations, says Mr. McConnell.
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