英语词汇“example_english_lesser-sentence”的音标、意思、用法及中文翻译-反思网

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So that if this section was not there the prison population might be less, because the judge might pass a lessersentence.
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It will not hear the man's side—he will not worry; he has got off with a lessersentence anyway.
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We shall also give power to the court to give a lessersentence.
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That is an offence punishable by dismissal with disgrace or a term of imprisonment or some lessersentence.
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He had served his sentence: he was convicted and gaoled for four years, although his co-defendant received a lessersentence.
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Only the prospect or the probability of some lessersentence is likely to induce them to surrender without a fight.
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In fact, the court is precluded from sentencing the accused to death, but may pass a lessersentence.
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Why should the admission of guilt entitle a criminal to a lessersentence than that for someone who exercises the right to go to trial?
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Why should a defendant receive a different and lessersentence in another court for the same offence on the same evidence after a contested trial?
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In other words, the court could not pass a lessersentence simply because it considered that to impose the minimum length of sentence would be unjust.
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Will he institute an inquiry to consider the advantages of giving judges the opportunity to pass an appropriate and often lessersentence rather than the automatic life sentence?
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Cases in which a lessersentence is imposed are, from a practical point of view, on an entirely different footing from the case of the death sentence.
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That must be a case where a plea of guilty warrants a lessersentence than the case where the accused man insists on all the evidence being heard.
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They would be able to substitute a lesser one only when the judge had explained why that lessersentence was necessary in the interests of justice.
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But, then, could we legislate to the effect that, in a capital case, the capital sentence required a unanimous verdict while a majority verdict led to a lessersentence?
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It is not true that, where a sentence is not mentioned, and mentioned to be discretionary, the court has the power to pass any lessersentence.
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Capital punishment is an instant and awesome end, and any man sentenced to it would willingly commute it to a lessersentence.
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Pleas of diminished responsibility or provocation are the two ways in which a person who is obviously guilty of the crime can be given a lessersentence.
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The first-time defendant is likely to receive a lessersentence than a defendant on a similar charge who is back for his third or fourth offence.
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