Meanings of light sentences in inglês

So it will be logical for judges to give light sentences.

Why do repeat offenders always get such ridiculously light sentences?

Others begged for light sentences, but did not deny guilt.

Those on trial for political offences say they have been promised acquittal or light sentences.

Attempted strangulations often leave no visible injury and fatal cases too frequently end in light sentences.

Did it arrive at the extremity of duplications, he always got light sentences for his clients.

In the HSP case, Csizmazia and Medford entered plea agreements, presuming this would lead to light sentences.

The judges will be a little skittish about giving light sentences to a man with a record.

As a result, the courts either award light sentences to the attackers, or they are acquitted, he said.

The Assistant Public Defender, Rob McNeill, who represented all three men, asked the court to consider light sentences.

The soldiers who fired the shots were tried for murder and acquitted, save two who received light sentences.

There's something about these laws and light sentences that feels out of place in a country famous for over-incarceration.

These figures show that habitual criminals will not be deterred by light sentences, but rather emboldened in their sinister career.

But Lyla was so happy that she begged the Council to give them very light sentences-orjust let them go free.

He said Pakistanis who commit violence against women are often acquitted or handed light sentences because of poor police work and faulty prosecutions.

Pesutto said "pretending there was no problem" was not going to help, and light sentences were sending the wrong signal to offenders.