Mairead's husband, Mick Philpott, is serving a life sentence with a minimum term of 15 years.
Megrahi was serving a life sentence with a minimum term of 27 years after being convicted in 2001.
Later, Professor Hawking completed the sentence with: "but they evaporate in 10 to the minus 23 of a second, " or some such.
Two other members of the gang were also convicted - one received a death sentence with reprieve and the other eight years in prison.
Owen was given an indeterminate sentence with a minimum term of three years but he later challenged this and was given a six-year jail term instead.
District Judge William Sylvester would want assurances from defense lawyers that Holmes is mentally competent to plead guilty and accept a life sentence with no parole, Steinhauser said.
Because a determinate prisoner is released at the half way point in his sentence, a life sentence with a minimum term is the equivalent of a determinate sentence of double that length.
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Baby Peter's 27-year-old mother was given an indefinite sentence with a minimum term of five years at the Old Bailey in May after pleading guilty to causing or allowing her son's death.
Simpson, 63, is now serving a 33-year sentence with the possibility of parole after nine years for 10 convictions relating to an armed confrontation over sports memorabilia in a Las Vegas hotel room.
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The public weighed in on what they felt was a proper prison sentence with over half asking for a prison term of over 6 years in an unscientific poll at the NY Post.
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Whether Sean Quinn was the proper target for retribution is a subject of intense controversy even as the native of County Fermanagh (Northern Ireland) is being shifted this afternoon for a nine-week sentence with the common criminals in Mountjoy jail outside Dublin.
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In fact, I think starting any sentence with "just between us" is almost guaranteed to ensure that what you are about to say will not stay confidential, in the same way that it is usually a bad idea to precede any complex physical action with "Watch this!"
Ja Rule pleaded guilty to the weapons charges and asked to have the tax evasion sentence served concurrently with the weapons sentence.
However, a retrial was ordered in January after he appealed against the sentence, with the court citing "procedural failings".
The sentence ends with a glimmer of the speech that could have been.
Prosecutor Nicola Picardi had sought a three-year sentence, with an indefinite ban on Gabriele holding public office or positions of authority.
Pell says that Powerset's understanding of language means his search engine can actually reward users' full-sentence queries with more relevant, meaningful results than they get from the big search engines now.
Fastow, of course, is the former chief financial officer of Enron , who cooperated with government investigators and received only a six-year prison sentence, compared with 24 years for ex-CEO Jeffrey Skilling.
It was a two-sentence pitch, with an attached document full of details and Baydin is one of my favorite companies to work with, even to this day.
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Later, I was informed, by way of comfort, that Harvey had also missed his death: he was in the middle of a sentence, joking with his nurse.
Mr Dell'Utri, who was returned to parliament again in April's election, is appealing against a nine-year prison sentence for association with the Mafia that was handed down in December 2004.
She is serving a five-year sentence for wounding with intent and was refused a place at Holloway's mother-and-baby unit by prison governor Mike Sheldrick on grounds of alleged violence and unpredictable behaviour.
Finally, note that there are just 14 words in the revised sentence, compared with 19 in the original, and that nine of them are one-syllable, three are two-syllable and two are three-syllable.
On February 15th Vyacheslav Lebedev, chairman of Russia's Supreme Court, suggested reviving an old Soviet practice under which a maximum sentence for a person charged with different crimes should not exceed the sentence attached to the most serious charge: in Mr Khodorkovsky's case, nine years.
At an earlier hearing, he was given an indeterminate sentence for a minimum of six years for the latest crime, to run concurrently with his life sentence.
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Hatley, who was sentenced to life imprisonment, got clemency with his sentence reduced to 40 years.
His sentence was in line with others handed down by the Special Court for Sierra Leone.
This week Mr Berlusconi received yet another criminal conviction (for bribery), complete with jail sentence.
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