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Holt received a sentence of 20 hours of community service and was required to write letters of apology to the school and neighborhood.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
Got to write the sentence and delete it.
From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2026
“It was a death sentence then,” he says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
Ajay Pant, 38, in custody in Britain, has been charged with sanctions offences carrying a maximum 10-year prison sentence, in a case that could set a legal precedent for merchant seafarers.
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
He was having trouble concentrating, until he heard his mother's next sentence.
From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville
Several of the Operation Portaledge cases which have come to court resulted in lengthy jail sentences.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026
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
But I remember rewriting several sentences of my own work in the hopes of satisfying this new integrity god.
From Slate ● Aug. 18, 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
While we watched, words formed themselves into sentences and paragraphs on the screen.
From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn
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
York was sentenced to two days in county jail, with credit for the day he has already served, and ordered to pay a $1,150 fine, the court file shows.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
Khan has been in jail since 2023 and was sentenced late last year along with his wife to 17 years on corruption charges they both deny.
From Barron's ● Aug. 23, 2026
The three men will be sentenced at Kingston Crown Court on 23 October.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
We told him that we believed that he had been unfairly convicted and sentenced.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
On Tuesday's sentencing, Liu's lawyer asked for leniency arguing that his client feels remorse and "is not a cult leader, nor requires people to follow his cult", according to Radio New Zealand.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
The Times attempted to contact the attorney listed in York’s sentencing records, but he did not immediately respond.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
He noted that she'd already spent 15 months in solitary confinement at the time of her sentencing.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
“While federal sentencing is pending, we are prepared to litigate the defense motions,” the spokesman said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
After the sentencing, however, Ray recanted his guilty plea.
From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry
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