"sentence" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Some prosecutors complain that the drug court concept is simply an attempt to make an end run around tougher drug sentences.
- His son is in prison on a long drug sentence.
- Dozens of Federal judges, most of them former prosecutors, have taken a strong stand against mandatory minimum drug sentences.
- Changing the drug sentences seemed a lost cause for the moment, lobbyists said.
- Mr. Callahan, who was among those indicted, is already serving a 10-year drug sentence in state prison.
- Recently released from his drug sentence, he is back in Brentwood, wondering what will become of him.
- I was working off a drug sentence at the County.
- He is calling for an overhaul of the criminal justice system's heavy reliance on mandated drug sentences, which results in filled the prisons.
- Convictions for violent crimes went down, while drug sentences rose more than twentyfold, from 67 in 1982 to 1,641 in 1989.
- The sentencing guidelines provided 99 percent of all drug sentences and left little discretion for the judge.
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