Hours earlier, Roth had accepted a plea bargain in the fake-drowning case that included a 90-day jail sentence.
Mr Grieve must decide by 8 April - 28 days after the original sentence - whether to refer the case to the Court of Appeal, which has the power to either increase the sentences or leave them the same.
Over 17, 000 people are calling for an investigation into the prosecution of Sholom Rubashkin, which I frankly knew nothing about but seems to have involved a 27-year sentence for a first offense in a case of white-collar crime.
The conviction of and subsequent 25-year sentence given to Bernie Ebbers make an excellent case for repealing or substantially modifying the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, a destructive piece of legislation rushed through Congress three years ago in the aftermath of the WorldCom collapse.
He faces a two-year jail sentence, and has been indicted in a state-lottery case.
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Heymann received a Department of Justice award for his convictions of five defendants in the case, which included a 15-year sentence for the most active member of the team, Alberto Gonzalez.
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Rengan Rajaratnam, 42, "dropped everything and headed to the airport" after hearing that he was indicted in the same case that resulted in an 11-year prison sentence for his brother, Raj Rajaratnam, said his attorney Vinoo Varghese.
At the time Lady Stacey told him that he would have faced a 12-year sentence but for his guilty plea in the case.
He said nothing when Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Islamist mayor of Istanbul, was sentenced to a ten-month jail sentence, nothing when prosecutors opened a case against an association of pious businessmen.
Die Hard director John McTiernan has lost his appeal to have a one-year prison sentence overturned for lying to the FBI in a wiretapping case.
On Aug. 9, The Huffington Post reported on the case of Leigh Stubbs, a Mississippi woman serving a 44-year sentence for assault and drug charges.
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But the judge in the case sent a signal that the ex-trader might face an even stiffer sentence.
In the ordinary criminal case, there is a two-step judgment--guilt and then sentence.
File-sharing carries a maximum sentence of two years in prison, but in this case the court chose just a fine as the man was not trying to profit financially from his actions.
Anwar is already serving a six-year sentence from his previous conviction in another controversial trial, his abuse of power case.
By counting each e-mail sent by a white-collar wrongdoer as a separate case of wire fraud, prosecutors can threaten him with a gargantuan sentence unless he confesses, or informs on his boss.
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.
The most worrying has been the case of Yulia Tymoshenko, a former prime minister who now languishes in prison on a seven-year sentence.
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