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In it, the defense lays out why the defendant should get a light sentence (family, health, all around good guy), while the prosecutors want the maximum sentence (more years in prison).
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Lawyers are so good at crafting a self serving sentence.
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Stressing he had heart and prostate surgery and was not in good health, she asked that any prison sentence should be suspended.
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The WICB disciplinary committee had said they would prefer for Samuels not to face a ban, recommending a suspended sentence on account of Samuels' good behaviour.
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Judge Reddihough added the large number of other websites illegally streaming football matches called "for court to impose deterrent sentences", and that if it were not for mitigating factors of young age and previous good character that he "would have had in mind a custodial sentence".
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He served 27 years of his sentence and was released early from prison on the grounds of good behaviour.
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Sentence on Kane was deferred until 23 August for her to be of good behaviour.
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Second, the GAO confirmed that amending the good time credit statute to require that inmates serve no more than 85% of the sentence would better calibrate actual time served with the assumptions underlying the sentencing guidelines consulted at sentencing.
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Given the high reoffending rate, and the fact that many leave prison jobless, homeless, addicted and without family support or probation supervision, a community sentence that involves more positive handling of their offending and addiction must be a good thing.
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The quotes around problem in the previous sentence are a reminder that a temporary trade deficits or surpluses are not per se a good or bad thing.
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Joe was in good spirits, considering his fate, though I could still tell there was a hope that his pending sentence would somehow not come to pass through either divine or human intervention.
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