During the hearing, Assistant U.S. Attorney Matthew Parrella said the sentence was too lenient.
Lord Burns said the sentence would have been 11 years, but for the guilty plea.
Lawyers for the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), which campaigns on digital rights, said the sentence was unjust.
Opening a Lords debate, Dr Rowan Williams said the sentence would have a harmful effect on the family.
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Mr. Gribkowsky's attorney said the sentence was expected and declined to comment further.
Earlier, Mr Justice Holman said the sentence should now be cut to 10 months - making him eligible for release on parole in March.
Making his ruling, Lord Judge said the sentence in the case of James Connors reflected his youth and "short involvement in the conspiracy, into which he effectively grew up".
Mr White said the Sentence Review Commission had said Adair should be released, and it was now up to the government to say why he should remain in prison.
But dismissing the appeal Lord Justice Treacy said the sentence was "not excessive" given the nature of the "truly dreadful" crime and an adult would have been given a longer tariff.
The BBC's North America Business Reporter Michelle Fleury said the length of the sentence was unexpected.
Judge Stephen Fowler QC said the custodial sentence must also include an element of deterrence to others.
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One of Ms Hilton's lawyers said the jail sentence was unfair.
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But defence lawyers said the recommended sentence was "manifestly disproportionate and excessive", and that Taylor had only been found guilty of an indirect role - aiding the rebels, rather than leading them.
Sentencing, the magistrate said a custodial sentence was the only suitable punishment because the greyhound had suffered "severe and extensive injuries".
The mother of one of the girls said the length of sentence was "disgusting" because her daughter would have to live with it for the "rest of her life" and the whole family was under a "dark cloud".
Det Sgt Rob Bastin, said he hoped the sentence would "bring some comfort to a family that has had to deal with losing their loved one".
The family of the victim said on Thursday they were furious the sentence had been commuted and planned to appeal against the decision.
Judge Jacobs approved the stamp sale after Klein had served half his sentence and said the collector could keep any proceeds after repaying the churches.
"The judge and jury believed Saldate, " said Kozinski of the verdict and sentence.
The Lord Justice General said that he considered that the starting sentence should have been 12 years which would be reduced to nine and a half years following the guilty plea.
The judge said his sentence was being overturned because there was a scheme available to make him clean up graffiti.
Vice President Hashemi said carrying out the death sentence against Hashim could further undermine the already stalled reconciliation efforts in post-Saddam Iraq.
"The tragedy of this crime is that it's a story of betrayal, " Judge Cleland said before handing down the sentence in Centre County Court.
Nikolic was found guilty of "breaking international rules of war by killing two ethnic Albanian civilians, committing war crimes against the civilian population, " said judge Dragan Tacic, delivering the sentence.
The judge said he would not sentence Sandusky to "centuries in prison, although the law will permit that".
Sparring the teenager a custodial sentence, the judge said that he sentenced him on the basis that he did not deliberately shoot his girlfriend.
Prosecutor Paul Tuchman said the government didn't oppose a sentence lower than the guidelines.
"It is shocking that for doing some routine newsgathering on an important public issue, keeping her word to her sources, and without our even publishing a story about the CIA agent, Judy finds herself facing a prison sentence, " said the New York Times' publisher, Arthur Sulzberger Jr.
Eric Ntabazalila, regional spokesman for the National Prosecuting Authority said he would seek a life sentence against the pair "considering how gruesome the murder was", reports the AFP news agency.
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