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guilty and submitting to a criminal sentence, the formal ana- logues of apologizing and making amends—or by denying responsibility and contesting some
processes, such that judges will impose different sentences in identical cases depending on the baseline sentence from which the judge’s analysis begins. This Note shows...
over six thousand Supreme Court opinions by measuring the length of sentences and the use of long, polysyllabic words. The data shows that legal
received an eight-year sentence. For her, as for others, increased access to firearms, even with domestic-violence sentencing flexibility, is insufficient
sentence.”FP 7 PF Actions that would not necessarily imply the invalidity of the conviction or sentence, even if they succeeded, are “allowed to
to be morally guilty. The court found them legally guilty and sentenced them to death, and then the Crown commuted the sentence to six months in prison
legislatures play the dominant role in initially defining crimes and in establishing the range of applicable sentences for those crimes.”). 23. To
Eschewing the partial interventions and feeble regulations that have long characterized law reform, Wilmot-Smith pre- sents a moral case for completely
regulations that have long characterized law reform, Wilmot-Smith pre- sents a moral case for completely overhauling the system for the delivery of legal
principle are inconsistent with both the genuine-connection doctrine and the framework pre- sented in Lotus. i i . the protective principle as a legal