To achieve this, the judge is provided sentencing guidelines that take mitigating circumstances into consideration.
Sentencing guidelines now serve to promote many years behind bars for convicted white-collar criminals.
If convicted, he faces about a year and a half in prison, according to sentencing guidelines.
The bill makes wide-ranging changes to legal aid, the cost of litigation, and sentencing guidelines.
The federal Sentencing Guidelines take into account both the seriousness of the offense and the offender's criminal history.
Prosecutors said there are sentencing guidelines that could send Kevorkian to prison between 10 and 25 years.
However, the Federal Sentencing Guidelines can put a first-time, non-violent offender behind bars for the remainder of their life.
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Sentencing guidelines called for Ms Huntley to serve between 18 and 24 months.
Sentencing guidelines directed the judge to impose a mandatory life sentence, but Mr Chambers appealed for a lighter term.
And thanks to ever-tougher federal sentencing guidelines, those convicted will likely do time.
Indeed, the biggest complaint of the sentencing guidelines is that sentencing authority now rests with prosecutors rather than with courts.
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Coughlin is scheduled to be sentenced November 21 and according to Federal Sentencing Guidelines prosecutors will ask for 36-48 months.
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State and federal sentencing guidelines have been introduced, over the past two decades, to rule out arbitrary behaviour by judges.
Under Californian sentencing guidelines, if convicted on all charges he faces a maximum prison term of four years and eight months.
Lord Carter suggested a way of doing this, too: an independent commission that would set sentencing guidelines according to prison capacity.
Judge Joseph jailed him for a further three years, saying she had to use sentencing guidelines in operation at the time.
But just how outrageous would it be for Rakoff to administer a sentence that is WAYYYY outside of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines?
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He faced up to 10 years in prison under federal sentencing guidelines.
Mr MacAskill said the best way to tackle the problem was to ensure the judiciary enforced the law, while sentencing guidelines were reformed.
Why this is so remains unclear, but it may be yet another example of judicial common sense outpacing the evolution of the Sentencing Guidelines.
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He said he had agreed with justice minister David Ford that the group responsible for sentencing guidelines should be expanded to include lay members.
Under a controversial points system used in mandatory federal sentencing guidelines, this loss translated into a jail term of between 292 and 365 months.
When the Supreme Court struck down mandatory sentencing guidelines in 2005, added Wisenberg, it granted judges a great deal of discretion in issuing sentences.
Sentencing guidelines suggest a prison term of up to four years.
Leiderman said, however, that a judge could disregard those sentencing guidelines.
Judge Weinstein indicated he "may or may not" sentence Ms. Huntley within the 18 to 24 months that federal sentencing guidelines recommend for her crimes.
Unfortunately, the sentencing guidelines are not applied evenly across the country.
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The government, on the other hand, has asked for a sentence of 8 to 10 years, which falls in line with the suggested sentencing guidelines.
In December, Turkish lawmakers adopted an amendment designed to soften sentencing guidelines introduced earlier in the year to punish those found guilty of corruption in football.
In its report, the commission recommended that federal judges give sentencing guidelines more weight, and that appeals courts more closely scrutinize sentences that fall beyond them.
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