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Imprisonment
52, replacing with amendments s. 102 of the (English) Children Act, 1908, a child under 14 cannot be sentenced to imprisonment or penal servitude for any offence, or committed to prison in default of payment of a
presentence report
presentence report : a report prepared by a probation officer upon conviction of a defendant that assists the sentencing court in imposing an appropriate sentence NOTE: The information contained in a presentence report includes the defendant's prior
sentence
sentence [Old French, opinion, judicial sentence, from Latin sententia, ultimately from sentire to feel, think, express an opinion] 1
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hearing
and often the right to a jury fat·i·co hearing [fa-ti-kō-] : a hearing sometimes held prior to the sentencing of a convicted criminal at which the parties may offer evidence as to appropriate sentencing Franks hearing [fraks-]
career offender
with two or more prior convictions for violent or drug-related crimes called also career criminal NOTE: Under federal sentencing guidelines career offenders are given maximum sentences.
acceptance of responsibility
of responsibility :a convicted federal defendant's acknowledgment of and remorse for his or her crime such that the sentencing judge has the discretion under the federal sentencing guidelines to reduce the offense level and so impose a
Convict
abolishing forfeitures for treason and felony enables the Crown to appoint administrators of the Property of any convict sentenced to death or penal servitude for any treason or felony. The administrator has an absolute discretionary power of
High Steward, Court of the Lord
duel) in 1841; and that of Earl Russell, who was convicted of bigamy on 17th July, 1901, and sentenced to three months' imprisonment. See The Trial of Earl Russell, 1901 AC 446; and the trial of Lord
Hard labour
Administration Act, 1914, s. 16(1), 'where a person convicted by or before any Court of an offence is sentenced to imprisonment without the option of a fine, the imprisonment may, in the discretion of the court, be
Discharge of a jury
one of the jury; or (2) in due course on the termination of the trial by verdict (or sentence); or by the discretion of the judge determining that they are so exhausted as to be incapable of
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