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Pete is now retired; Carter is serving a life sentence under maximum security.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
He was convicted in 2017, with the life sentence upheld on appeal in 2021.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
He had denied the most serious charges and his lawyers said he would appeal the sentence.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
Cohen already served his three-year prison sentence for campaign-finance crimes and lying to Congress.
From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2026
Maybe my sentence was solitary confinement for years and years.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
A total of 56 people were given jail sentences -- including Xu's two sons -- with the shortest term one year and 10 months, China's state news agency Xinhua reported.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
It’s no happenstance that Moynihan regularly jams words such as “gainsay,” “concomitant” and “fantods” into otherwise ordinary sentences when he addresses the street.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
In her lessons with Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio, Monroe read aloud the final sentence of Molly’s soliloquy—at 4,391 words, one of the longest sentences in English literature.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
That is the argument, delivered in full sentences, on the record, to a reporter, by the people it benefits.
From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026
Deb is still working on her sentences, like Kiki.
From "Muffled" by Jennifer Gennari
Yates was initially convicted and sentenced to life in prison, but she was found not guilty by reason of insanity at a 2006 retrial and committed to a psychiatric hospital.
From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026
He was sentenced to one day in jail for both charges, to be served concurrently, and was credited with having served one day when he pleaded no contest.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
One of them was sentenced to life with the possibility of parole, and the other was paroled after cooperating with investigators.
From Slate ● Aug. 25, 2026
And McColl was sentenced to 220 hours of unpaid work, 18 months probation, and an 11-month restriction of liberty order, as a direct alternative to custody.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
That figure, of course, does not include the thousands who avoid prison but are arrested, convicted, and sentenced to jail or probation.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
During the sentencing, Justice Mathew Downs said Liu had shown "callous indifference" towards Wang.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
But, during his sentencing remarks, His Honour Judge Paul Farrer KC, said he did not accept Allen's judgement was impaired at the time and said he had abused a position of trust.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
Wang faces up to 10 years in prison during her sentencing hearing scheduled for October.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026
The judge in that case scheduled his sentencing for Dec. 18.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
After the sentencing, Commander Jameson doesn't let her soldiers take me back to my cell.
From "Legend" by Marie Lu
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