But the appeals judges upheld the guilty verdicts on other charges, including one that carried a mandatory jail term.
Smith faces a mandatory life term, but the judge will decide how long he must spend in jail before being eligible for parole.
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The Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill introduces a new mandatory custodial term for 16 and 17-year-olds who threaten with a knife.
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Lord Justice Clerk Lord Carloway remanded Olej in custody and deferred sentencing until next month, where he will impose a mandatory life term and set the length of time to be served.
Steve agreed, and called for a mandatory long-term care benefit under Medicare.
In fact, one bill has been filed in Connecticut this year that would establish a mandatory minimum prison term for someone charged with second-degree manslaughter after assisting another person with committing suicide.
He said Parliament had decided that certain firearms offences should carry a mandatory, five-year minimum term unless there were exceptional circumstances.
And if we do try again to adopt a national long-term care insurance system, should it be mandatory or voluntary?
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Sentencing guidelines directed the judge to impose a mandatory life sentence, but Mr Chambers appealed for a lighter term.
Under a controversial points system used in mandatory federal sentencing guidelines, this loss translated into a jail term of between 292 and 365 months.
The difference in mediation models is not just between facilitative, evaluative, and transformative, but also pre or post filing, mandatory or free choice, caucusing or not caucusing, short term vs. open-ended, lawyers present or not present, etc.
In addition, some workers might see a mandatory contribution to their personal unemployment-support account as a long-term investment, not as a tax.
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