In criminal law, a sentence is the punishment for a crime ordered by a trial court after conviction in a criminal procedure, normally at the conclusion...

defendant does not break the law during that period and fulfills the particular conditions of the probation, the sentence is usually considered fulfilled...

Look up sentence in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Sentence(s) or The Sentence may refer to: Sentence (law), a punishment imposed on a person who has...

These laws require a person who is convicted of an offense and who has one or two other previous serious convictions to serve a mandatory life sentence in...

bound by law; these sentences are produced through the legislature, not the judicial system. They are instituted to expedite the sentencing process and...

hijacking, and genocide. Common law murder is one of the only crimes in which life imprisonment is mandatory; mandatory life sentences for murder are given in...

A discharge is a type of sentence imposed by a court whereby no punishment is imposed. An absolute discharge is an unconditional discharge whereby the...

Community sentence or alternative sentencing or non-custodial sentence is a collective name in criminal justice for all the different ways in which courts...

allowable by law in the jurisdiction for the particular offense. The main reason for imposing indefinite (as opposed to fixed) sentences is to protect...

a change in the law or judicial ruling that limits or eliminates the death penalty. In some jurisdictions a commutation of sentence may be conditional...

In the United States, sentencing law varies by jurisdiction. The jurisdictions in the US legal system are federal, state, regional, and county. Each jurisdictional...

American case law and penology literature divides life sentences into "determinate life sentences" or "indeterminate life sentences". The latter indicates...

Starr from University of Michigan Law School found that, controlling for the crime, "men receive 63% longer sentences on average than women do," and "[w]omen...

States Federal Sentencing Guidelines are rules published by the U.S. Sentencing Commission that set out a uniform policy for sentencing individuals and...

A deferred sentence is a sentence that is suspended until after a defendant has completed a period of probation. If the defendant fulfills the stipulations...

In grammar, sentence and clause structure, commonly known as sentence composition, is the classification of sentences based on the number and kind of...

In England and Wales, life imprisonment is a sentence that lasts until the death of the prisoner, although in most cases the prisoner will be eligible...

had spent in pre-sentence custody and was released two days after his sentencing hearing to a one year period of probation. The first law requiring truth...

practice, back-to-back life sentences, also called consecutive life sentences, are two or more consecutive life sentences given to a convicted felon....

sections 48, 50 and 51 of the criminal law of the People's Republic of China. It is a two-year suspended sentence where the execution is only carried out...

or suspension of civil rights. Law portal Capital punishment Community sentence Suspended sentence "Custodial sentences". www.sentencingcouncil.org.uk...

criminal law is governed by the Criminal Code, which includes the principles and powers in relation to criminal sentencing in Canada. A judge sentences a person...

increased incarcerations (US racial demographics, Increased sentencing laws, and Drug sentencing laws) have been described as consequences of the shift in editorial...

Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 (Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 111–220 (text) (PDF)) was an Act of Congress that was signed into federal law by...

enacted several changes in U.S. federal criminal law aimed at reforming federal prisons and sentencing laws in order to reduce recidivism, decreasing the...

home. The largest percentage of conditional sentences are for property crime. By law, a conditional sentence must be less than two years in duration; they...

British law many crimes were punishable by death, but from 1823, the term "death recorded" was used in cases where the judge wished to record a sentence of...

that parole takes place after a prison sentence, while probation can be granted in lieu of a prison sentence. Alexander Maconochie, a Scottish geographer...

Statute 775.087, known as the 10-20-Life law, is a mandatory minimum sentencing law in the U.S. state of Florida. The law concerns the use of a firearm during...

reasonable doubt—whether or not statutory law labels that fact as an element of the offense or a sentencing factor. The only exception is the fact of...