This in a country where the average prison term for manslaughter is three years.
Instead, she received a three month prison term plus three months of house arrest.
That case generated national interest with a potential prison term up to six years.
His prison term was increased by three appeal judges after a plea from the Solicitor General.
Abramoff served a nearly 6 year prison term and is currently speaking on lobbyist reforms.
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Judges at the Court of Criminal Appeal in Edinburgh reduced the prison term to 18 months.
U.S. District Judge James L. Graham instead hit the 65-year-old with a six-year prison term.
Lawyers acting on his behalf argued that the prison term for the offence was "excessive".
An appeals court earlier this year upheld the ruling and imposed a prison term.
Bakhtiyar Hajiyev had been serving a two-year prison term on charges of avoiding military service.
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If convicted of wire fraud, Denniston faces a maximum prison term of 20 years.
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Last year he was sentenced to another prison term for another run-in with securities fraud.
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He will be sentenced on October 4 and has agreed to a 10-year prison term.
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The legal consensus holds that she will face a prison term of between 37 and 46 months.
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He is expected to return next month to be given a prison term of at least four years.
And if the loan was inappropriate, the lender would be open to a lawsuit--and even a prison term.
Niazi, of Cambridge Road, Kingston, south-west London, was ordered to serve a minimum prison term of 12 years.
Illinois does not have the death penalty, and the 59-year-old Peterson had faced a maximum 60-year prison term.
The Crown argued there was a high chance Le Galle would re-offend and pushed for a prison term.
Under a special arrangement with the international court, any prison term Taylor does receive will be served in Britain.
He spent almost his entire prison term, from 1990 to 2005, in isolation.
Thus, a prison term is necessary to vindicate the law and provide deterrence.
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Though there has been no verdict announced, he is expected to be convicted and receive a long prison term.
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Sussex Police arrested the 28-year-old at HMP Dartmoor, where he is serving a prison term for an unrelated matter.
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The initial charge of "aggravated pimping as part an organised gang" carries a potential prison term of 20 years.
The appellate court in its ruling Wednesday also upheld a four-year prison term and a five-year ban from political office.
However, he dodged the long prison term the prosecutor wanted and instead received 20 months (Ring recently lost his appeal).
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Akhtar, 27, of Elm Park Road, Reading, admitted conspiracy to burgle and was sentenced to a three year prison term.
Roh's prison term was reduced to 17 years, and the sentences for the business leaders were either overturned or suspended.
Bowe's prison term, set to start on Friday, stems from a 1998 incident in which he abducted his then-wife Judy.
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