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Suspended sentences (執行猶予, shikkō yūyo) are common practice in Japan and can be applied in cases where a sentence is for up to three years in prison and/or 500,000 yen in fines. Any criminal activity during the period of the suspended sentence will result in the cancellation of the sentence and imprisonment for the prescribed term. [11]
However, in the event that the offender does re-offend during the operational period, then the sentence is 'activated' and the offender will serve the suspended sentence along with any sentence given for the new offence. A suspended sentence is usually implemented to run consecutively to a term of imprisonment imposed for the new offence.
the most serious category of a crime; of murder, carries a lifetime prison- or death-sentence (also informal murder one; see article) first floor (of a building) the floor above ground level (US: second floor) the floor at ground level (often, but not always, the same floor as a building's lobby) (UK: ground floor) fit (adj.)
Nov. 17—The Whitefish man accused of holding a woman against her will and beating her with a belt in 2021 received a partially suspended sentence in Flathead County District Court on Thursday.
Aug. 21—A former Salina Public Schools teacher and Northeastern State University football coach accused of lewd molestation was sentenced to 14 days Aug. 20, with a seven-year suspended sentence.
A Chinese court has handed a suspended death sentence to Tian Huiyu, an ex-president of China Merchants Bank and previously the right-hand man of the country’s former economic tsar, on charges ...
I believe this article is confusing a suspended sentence with a deferred sentence. In Vermont, deferred sentencing allows the judge to suspend passing of the sentence. A suspended sentence, on the other hand, has been passed but the execution of the sentence is suspended while the offender is on probation. G. Csikos, 8 December 2009.
The term antonym (and the related antonymy) is commonly taken to be synonymous with opposite, but antonym also has other more restricted meanings. Graded (or gradable) antonyms are word pairs whose meanings are opposite and which lie on a continuous spectrum (hot, cold).