sentencing
1sentencing — index commitment (confinement), conviction (finding of guilt) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
2sentencing — /ˈsɛntn̩sıŋ/ noun [noncount] He will return to the court on Wednesday for sentencing. • • • Main Entry: ↑sentence …
3sentencing — sen·tenc·ing (sĕnʹtən sĭng) adj. 1. Relating to a judicial sentence: sentencing guidelines for juvenile defendants. 2. Being or relating to the one who pronounces a judicial sentence: “Prosecutors and sentencing judges alike try to deal with… …
4sentencing — 1. adjective Relating to a judicial sentence. There were no sentencing guidelines for this crime. 2. noun The act of pronouncing a judicial sentence on someone convicted of a crime. After the verdict, the sentencing was not delayed …
5sentencing — noun Sentencing is used before these nouns: ↑guideline Sentencing is used after these nouns: ↑drug …
6Sentencing — Sentence Sen tence, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Sentenced}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Sentencing}.] 1. To pass or pronounce judgment upon; to doom; to condemn to punishment; to prescribe the punishment of. [1913 Webster] Nature herself is sentenced in your doom …
7Sentencing disparity — is defined as a form of unequal treatment (in sentencing) that is of often unexplained cause and is at least incongrous, unfair and disadvantaging in consequence. [ [http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?record id=101 page=9 Alfred Blumstein, et al… …
8sentencing guidelines — sentencing guide·lines / gīd ˌlīnz/ n pl: a set of rules for computing sentences that is promulgated by a commission on sentencing and that typically provides classifications (as of offenses or offenders), scales (as of severity of crimes), and… …
9Sentencing (The Wire episode) — Infobox The Wire episode caption = episode name = Sentencing episode no = 13 epigraph = All in the game. Traditional West Baltimore teleplay = story = writer = David Simon and Ed Burns director = Tim Van Patten guest star = see below prod code =… …
10sentencing council — A panel of three or more judges which confers to determine a criminal sentence. Sentencing councils are not as commonly used as sentencing by a trial judge @ sentencing guidelines Guidelines established by the U.S. Sentencing Commission to be… …
