In most United States jurisdictions a defendant is allowed the opportunity to allocute — that is, explain himself — before sentence is passed.

In February 1991, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit upheld Bakker's conviction on the fraud and conspiracy charges, but voided Bakker's 45-year sentence, as well as the $ 500, 000 fine, and ordered that a new sentencing hearing be held.

In the cases Apprendi v. New Jersey,, and Blakely v. Washington,, the Supreme Court of the United States held that a criminal defendant has a right to a jury trial not only on the question of guilt or innocence, but any fact used to increase the defendant's sentence beyond the maximum otherwise allowed by statutes or sentencing guidelines.

" He proved correct ; the verdict and sentence were reversed by the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit on July 22, 1908.

Subsequently, the United States Supreme Court also allowed his conviction to stand but ordered the appeals court to reconsider its decision as to the sentence.

In the United States, for example, the general perjury statute under Federal law classifies perjury as a felony and provides for a prison sentence of up to five years.

In United States v. Binion, malingering or feigning illness during a competency evaluation was held to be obstruction of justice and led to an enhanced sentence.

He proclaimed his devotion to the United States Declaration of Independence, explaining in detail what each sentence meant to him.

The Espionage Act of 1917 imposed a maximum sentence of twenty years for anyone who caused or attempted to cause " insubordination, disloyalty, mutiny, or refusal of duty in the military or naval forces of the United States.

Also, in the United States, except for serious offenses ( such as murder ), " minors " are usually tried in a juvenile court, which lessens the sentence allowed, but forfeits the right to a jury.

The case of Weems v. United States,, marked the first time that the Supreme Court exercised judicial review to overturn a criminal sentence as cruel and unusual.

Hugh Gibson ; Maitre G. de Leval, the legal adviser to the United States legation ; and Marquis de Villalobar, the Spanish minister, formed a midnight deputation of appeal for mercy or at least postponement of sentence.

He denounced the treaties Alexander McGillivray had negotiated with Spain and the U. S., threatening to declare war on the United States unless it returned Muscogee lands, and issuing a death sentence against George Washington's Indian agent Benjamin Hawkins, who won the loyalty of the Lower Creeks.

His Slavery Discussed in Occasional Essays from 1833 to 1846 ( 1846 ) exercised considerable influence upon Abraham Lincoln, and in this book appears the sentence, which, as rephrased by Lincoln, was widely quoted: " If that form of government, that system of social order is not wrong — if those laws of the Southern States, by virtue of which slavery exists there, and is what it is, are not wrong — nothing is wrong.

Let the following sentence be inscribed in letters of gold over the door of every home in the United States: The Son of Man Came into the World, Not To Destroy Men's Lives, But To Save Them .< p >

He surrendered to Federal agents at the Mexican border and was sent to the United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth to serve his sentence September 1920 as Inmate # 15461.

The sentence was later reduced to one year by United States district court Judge John J. Sirica.

Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman (, ‘ Umar ‘ Abd ar-Raḥman ; born 3 May 1938 ), commonly known in the United States as " The Blind Sheikh ", is a blind Egyptian Muslim leader who is currently serving a life sentence at the Butner Medical Center which is part of the Butner Federal Correctional Institution in Butner, North Carolina, United States.

* Yū Kikumura was arrested with explosives on the New Jersey Turnpike in 1988 and served a long prison sentence in the United States.

On Monday, June 25, 2012, according to an online Catholic News Service ( CNS ) news brief posted that day, the Court ruled, in a 5-4 decision and with the majority opinion written by Associate Justice Elena Kagan, that life in prison without parole as an automatic sentence would be considered unconstitutional in all cases in the United States.

In a 2005 court case, United States v. Binion, the defendant was prosecuted and convicted for obstruction of justice ( adding to his original sentence ) because he feigned insanity in a Competency to Stand Trial evaluation.

With the intervention of the United States government, the sentence was commuted to 20 years in prison and later he was given exile to the U. S. Kim temporarily settled in Boston and taught at Harvard University as a visiting professor to the Center for International Affairs, until he chose to return to his homeland in 1985.

Although his sentence was not the death penalty, Einhorn's defense attorneys argued that Einhorn would face the death penalty if returned to the United States.

Miller believed that the first sentence of the Fourteenth Amendment (" All persons born and naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State where they reside ") differentiated between two citizenships, one of the United States and one of the state.

Concerning the sentence, Foss wrote, `` If it be possible that mercy shall override vengeance and that John Brown's sentence shall be commuted to imprisonment, it would be well -- well for the country and for Virginia ''.

If he disregards the third admonition the bishop, either with the advice of the metropolitan or with that of two or one of the neighboring bishops, shall pronounce the sentence of anathema against the violator and in writing denounce him to all the bishops.

All three constitutions contain, in the section on Principles, the sentence, " The separation of Church and State shall be inviolable ", echoing Jefferson's famous phrase.

Offended, the Fairy Queen pronounces a magical " sentence " upon the peers: Strephon shall not only become a Member of Parliament, but will have the power to pass any bill he proposes, including throwing the peerage open to competitive examination.

Only one extremely short letter – EA 223 ( EA-el Amarna ) is written from Endaruta of Akšapa, and it is a one sentence topic: a short 3-sentence formal-Prostration formula | formulaic introduction ... " Whatever the king ( i. e. pharaoh ), my lord, orders, I shall prepare.

The FMA's Republican co-sponsors, Senator Wayne Allard ( R-CO ) and Representative Marilyn Musgrave ( R-CO ), announced new language for the proposed amendment on March 23, 2004, replacing the second sentence of the amendment with " Neither this Constitution, nor the constitution of any State, shall be construed to require that marriage or the legal incidents thereof be conferred upon any union other than the union of a man and a woman.

Under Article 47 of Protocol I ( Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts ) it is stated in the first sentence " A mercenary shall not have the right to be a combatant or a prisoner of war.

# No sentence of expulsion from Zululand shall be carried out until it has been approved by the Resident.

Furthermore, the second sentence forbidding states from making " any law which shall abridge ," only applied to federal rights alone.

The leading pronoun could only be an object if " say " were used transitively and the sentence structured thus: " Whom shall I say to be calling?

In 1743 he published the paper On the structure and diseases of articulating cartilages – which is often cited – especially the following sentence: “ If we consult the standard Chirurgical Writers from Hippocrates down to the present Age, we shall find, that an ulcerated Cartilage is universally allowed to be a very troublesome Disease ; that it admits of a Cure with more Difficulty than carious Bone ; and that, when destroyed, it is not recovered ”.

The only published sentence of his farewell letter states: " They want a victim, they shall have it.

A special kind of rhythm was produced by the frequent employment of the so-called anadiplosis, a mode of speech in which the phrase at the end of one sentence is repeated at the beginning of the next, as, for instance, in the passages " they came not to the help of the Lord to protect God's people, to the help of the Lord against the mighty " ( Judges 5: 23 ; compare " ẓidḳot " and " nilḥamu " b ), and " From whence shall my help come?

who shall exact or receive such payments, incur eo ipso the sentence of excommunication.

( 2 ) “ If any of 39 ( 1 )( a ) to ( c ) apply, a youth justice court shall not impose a custodial sentence under section 42 unless the court has considered all alternatives to custody raised at the sentencing hearing that are reasonable in the circumstances, and determined that there is not a reasonable alternative, or combination of alternatives, that is in accordance with the purpose and principles set out in section 38.

These sentencing principles are meant to be imposed in accordance to additional principles listed out in section 38 ( 3 ) which state that in determining the youth sentence, the court shall take in account: the degree of participation of subjected youth in offence, the degree of harm inflicted and intentions of offender, any reparations provided to victim or community by youth offender, any time spent in detention by youth due to offense, any other case of guilt found against the offender, and whether there is any additional aggravating or mitigating information against the offender that might influence the sentence read otherwise.

If a young person is found guilty of an indictable offence, an offence where an adult would be liable to receive more than two years, an order for an adult sentence shall be imposed on a young offender in the following cases:

Section 65 of the Youth Criminal Justice Act ( YCJA ) states that if the Attorney General gives notice to the court at any stage of the proceedings that the young offender, who is alleged to have committed a “ presumptive offence ” ( as mentioned above ) that an adult sentence would not be sought, the court shall order that the young individual is not liable to an adult sentence ; the youth would immediately be tried in youth court and a youth sentence would be imposed.

When asked why God said that Adam would rule over Eve, Hinckley said, " I do not know ... My own interpretation of that sentence is that the husband shall have a governing responsibility to provide for, to protect, to strengthen and shield the wife.