Though a lenient judge sentenced him to a fine and community service, his reputation never recovered.
They felt that others warranted a lenient 6.0 on the morality scale when stealing a bike but assigned a highly immoral 3.9 if they took it themselves.
He is expected to co-operate with prosecutors in further courts-martial in exchange for a lenient sentence.
But they were soon overshadowed by thousands of protesters who flooded a major intersection in the capital, Dhaka, upset by what they said was a lenient sentence of life in prison, which actually means just 14 years in Bangladesh.
On Tuesday the Commons meets at 11.30am for Foreign Office questions, and before MPs move on to the Succession Bill (see above) there's a Ten Minute Rule Bill from the Conservative Gareth Johnson, who wants prosecutors to be able to appeal against sentences believed to be too lenient, in a greater range of cases.
Rana's lawyer, Patrick Blegen, argued for a more lenient sentence than the maximum of 30 years, saying the Pakistani-born Canadian did not present a future risk.
Plea bargaining is common in the US, with defendants often able to secure a more lenient sentence if they admit an offence and co-operate with prosecutors, rather than contest the charges in a trial.
Wall Street presumes that commodity notes held for more than a year get the same lenient capital gains treatment as stocks and bonds (a top rate of 15% at the moment).
An appeal is to be launched into the "lenient" sentence of a taxi driver who murdered an office worker in Swindon.
In return for a more lenient sentence, Choo has reportedly been co-operating with authorities, and it was his relationship with Ching that ultimately led investigators to focus on Primary Global Research.
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But the FA are refusing to comment on the case and clarify whether a more lenient punishment can be sought for social drugs, as opposed to performancing enhacing drugs, as Taylor suggests.
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As analysts survey the inflation "hawks" and "doves" on the Fed board, Greenspan, who embraces theories of a technology-driven New Economy, is seen as having a more lenient interest-rate bent than Clinton appointee Laurence Meyer.
And for those who believe the road ahead for illegal immigrants is too generous or lenient, Congress will have a chance to make it tougher, yet still realistic.
Barca were not in the mood to be lenient and after Messi curled a 30-yard free-kick narrowly wide and forced Pyatov to catch his cheeky chip, they doubled their advantage.
Stiglitz has repeatedly vilified Dodd-Frank as too lenient, but every check in a policy box bears a price.
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The referee was extremely lenient throughout, but he eventually brandished a yellow card at Leeds skipper Lucas Radebe for a dangerous tackle on Vincenzo Montella.
Three Court of Appeal judges agreed with Solicitor General Oliver Heald that the original 12-month suspended jail term was "unduly lenient" and would not act as a deterrent to others.
Conroy appeared to have got that call right despite the resulting anger from the home support, but he was too lenient 11 minutes later when only producing a yellow card after Lafferty lunged dangerously, studs-first into Hinkel's shin.
The third, lenient option will set drug safety advocates into a flurry of attacks on both regulators and Avandia itself.
McGuckin had earlier been warned that he faced "a substantial prison sentence" for the offence but judge Lord Bonomy said he had been lenient because the 28-year-old was under financial pressures due to illness and a new family.
The Attorney General's office said it was considering whether to refer the case to the Court of Appeal, which has powers to increase a sentence if it is "unduly lenient".
For example, the FHA loan program uses more lenient credit criteria than traditional mortgages, requires only a 3.5% down payment, and has the seller pay most of the closing costs.
Burglary or dangerous driving cannot currently be subject to a prosecution appeal, even where a prosecutor believes that the sentence was too lenient.
House Democrats reportedly thought a Senate bill designed to curb foreclosures was too lenient towards lenders.
The 2005 law, a set of amendments to bankruptcy law passed in 1978, was precipitated by a concern among lawmakers that the bankruptcy system was too lenient and was being abused, observers say.
Similarly, a debt is easier to manage if the terms are more lenient.
Shareholders complained that the award was too lenient, but the judge who made it was keen not to punish too severely a company that he considered had made great efforts to reform itself.
Not so, argues Eduardo Basualdo, an economist: the Menem government was lenient in enforcing the utilities' contracts, and Mr de la Rua could insist on a renegotiation.
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She said appeal judges decided to impose a four-year term after concluding that the 18-month sentence for offences committed over a 12-year period was "not simply merciful" but "unduly lenient".
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