hand down a sentence

A judge was expected to hand down a sentence today.

Yet no matter what the outcome, the judge cannot hand down a sentence of a specific time.

After a trial, the court hands down a sentence of "community service" for the three rapists.

Moreover, Federal guidelines require the judge to take such issues into account when handing down a sentence.

The Inferior Number may hand down a sentence of up to four years imprisonment.

Every time a judge hands down a sentence, it serves two purposes: to punish individual wrongdoing fairly and to broadcast a society's standards of behavior.

Within hours, the shielded judges had reached a guilty verdict and had handed down a sentence of 12 years.

This has the effect of ensuring that the jury will be willing to hand down a sentence of death, if they feel the crime warrants it.

The council did not hand down a sentence of rape, he said: Mr. Khaliq did it all himself.

On August 2, 1974, Sirica handed down a sentence to Dean of one to four years in a minimum-security prison.

On June 22, 2010, Judge Reade handed down a sentence of 27 years, two years more than prosecutors had requested.

A judge here handed down a sentence of 10 years' probation today to two Christian Scientists convicted of manslaughter in the death of their 2-year-old son.

Though the district attorney and the prosecuting attorney recommended a sentence of 99 years, on October 12 the jury handed down a sentence of fifteen years.

On June 12, 2009, a federal court handed down a sentence to Charles Lynch for a raid that occurred at his Central California medical marijuana dispensary in 2007.

Fisher denied Guandique's motion for retrial and handed down a sentence of 60 years in prison, stating that Guandique "will be a danger for some time.

Some legal experts are predicting that Mubarak will be handed down a sentence of between 10 and 25 years, though the reality is that no one really knows what the outcome will be.

Judge Gregory E. Noonan handed down a sentence of five years - the maximum for perjury - noting that Remington's act of perjury had involved disloyalty to his country.

Snaresbrook Crown Court handed down a sentence of three months in prison, suspended for one year with £500 costs, and prohibited Stratton from owning hydroponic equipment for one year.

To make sure federal jurists get the point, Mr. Ashcroft ordered prosecutors last month to begin notifying his office whenever a judge hands down a sentence more lenient than the range set by federal sentencing guidelines.

'Not a Well Man' Judge Weinstein, who could have imposed a term of 20 years, handed down a sentence of five years in jail, five years on probation and a $209,000 fine.

In handing down a sentence that split the difference between a possible 12 to 18 months, Judge Anne E. Thompson of Federal District Court weighed competing arguments about how Mr. Wachtler should be treated.

On March 2, 2007, a Hasselt judge handed down a sentence stipulating community service or alternatively seven months imprisonment to a man who spat and shouted anti-Semitic abuse at Israeli players during a 2005 soccer match between Belgium and Israel.

Before handing down a sentence on Tuesday, Justice Robert W. Doyle called Mr. Pelosi "a monster" who funneled the Ammon fortune to his own family, wasted thousands on gambling trips and ultimately committed murder to satisfy his greed.

The United Nations war crimes court established to hear cases from the former Yugoslavia found a former henchman of president Slobodan Milosevic guilty on Tuesday of multiple crimes while leading a Serbian separatist rebellion and handed down a sentence of 35 years.

According to Yoma 30b, an amora, also named Dosetai b. Matun, handed down a sentence of Johanan's; but the correct reading is "Justai b. Matun," which is found in the parallel passage, Zeb.