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7 Nov 2011, 8:45 am
— After decades of new laws to toughen sentencing for criminals, prosecutors have gained greater leverage to extract guilty pleas from defendants and reduce the number of cases that go to trial, often by using the threat of more serious charges with mandatory sentences or other harsher penalties. [read post]
25 Jun 2007, 8:46 am
Two foreign nationals, Brian Peter of Ireland and Shiro Izo of Japan, were convicted in absentia and also sentenced [read post]
29 May 2015, 5:57 am
Authorities say a man they say is a serial rapist has been sentenced to 30 years in prison. [read post]
7 Apr 2016, 2:25 pm
[JURIST] Former US Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert in a sentencing memorandum [text, PDF] filed on Wednesday urged the court [Politico report] to spare him jail time and impose a sentence of probation. [read post]
17 Jan 2017, 8:36 am
[JURIST] A Bangladesh court in Dhaka sentenced 26 people to death by hanging on Monday after convicting them of murdering seven. [read post]
12 Jul 2014, 7:21 am
[JURIST] A provincial court in Myanmar [BBC backgrounder] on Thursday sentenced four journalists and the chief executive from the Unity Journal [media website, in Burmese] to a 10-year prison sentence and hard labor for publishing a story in January in violation of the national State Secrets Act, a British colonial law dating back to the 1920s. [read post]
14 Jan 2014, 4:19 am
[JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit [official website] on Monday upheld the conviction and sentencing [opinion, PDF] of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] for his attempted bombing on an American aircraft. [read post]
4 Jan 2023, 7:04 am
The post Rick Singer, college scam mastermind, set to be sentenced first appeared on Maryland Daily Record. [read post]
7 Jul 2021, 9:31 am
Many people think that the sentence for a misdemeanor conviction is merely a slap on the wrist, but the reality can be much different. [read post]
14 Jul 2015, 8:44 am
Obama also emphasized that the sentences imposed upon the offenders, a minimum... [read post]
23 Dec 2011, 11:58 am
Chen, 42, was sentenced after a two hour hearing in which he pleaded not guilty to inciting subversion [Reuters report] of state power. [read post]
3 Apr 2018, 2:13 pm
In the first sentencing in the investigation by Special Counsel Robert Muller [official website] into Russian meddling, 33-year-old Dutch attorney Alex van der Zwaan was sentenced Tuesday to 30 days in prison and a $200,000 fine, followed by two months of supervised release. [read post]
8 Dec 2008, 8:28 am
Seven defendants received suspended sentences of 12-15 months [AP report], and the remaining defendant received a warning. [read post]
29 Apr 2015, 9:08 am
In addition, Judge Mohamed Nagi Shehata also sentenced [Reuters report] two other juvenile defendants to 10 years in prison without the opportunity for parole. [read post]
22 Feb 2018, 11:38 am
Rajab is currently serving a separate sentence [JURIST report] for his comments in interviews in 2015 and 2016. [read post]
9 Jun 2011, 11:43 am
Sentencing Commission to revise its guidelines to retroactively apply a 2010 law cutting the disparity between sentences for crack cocaine and powder cocaine offenses. [read post]
27 Jun 2009, 10:26 am
Thanks to a helpful e-mail, I discovered the new Chapman Journal of Criminal Justice, and also discovered the the new journal's inaugural issue has a series of notable sentencing articles by a bunch of notable authors following up the journal's symposium on evidence-based sentencing last summer. [read post]
14 Jun 2012, 5:40 am
Earlier on Wednesday Ben Ali was sentenced to 20 years [JURIST report] on charges of inciting violence and murder in connection with the death of four protesters in January 2011. [read post]
29 Mar 2014, 9:46 am
The sentences are part of a harsh crackdown on Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood [JURIST news archive]... [read post]
23 Jun 2015, 7:12 am
DENTON — Twenty-five people have been sentenced for their involvement in a heroin distribution ring in Caroline County, including the kingpin. [read post]
