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In Australia, suspended sentences are commonly imposed in order to alleviate the strain on overcrowded prisons. For example, an individual may be sentenced to a six-month jail term, wholly suspended for six months; if they commit any other offence during that year, the original jail term is immediately applied in addition to any other sentence.
Alabama v. Shelton, 535 U.S. 654 (2002), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court upheld the Alabama Supreme Court's ruling that counsel (a lawyer) must be provided for the accused in order to impose a suspended prison sentence.
fixed-term sentences; intermittent custody; suspended sentences; Section 230 of the Sentencing Act 2020 [36] states that the court must not pass a custodial sentence unless it is of the opinion that the offence (or combination of offences): "was so serious that neither a fine alone nor a community sentence can be justified". The court must ...
The 61-year-old convicted gangster pleaded guilty at Liverpool Crown Court to six charges of failing to comply with a serious crime prevention order. Curtis Warren wants ‘peace’ as he is given ...
She gave the boy credit for eight days already spent in the attention center and suspended the remaining 82 days. He could be required to serve the time if he violates terms of his probation.
Apr. 1—A judge granted an Oklahoma man a suspended sentence and probation Monday in Jasper County Circuit Court on a felony conviction for assaulting his Carthage girlfriend. Judge Dean ...
Ewing committed his first crime in 1984 when he was 22 years old. He pleaded guilty to theft, and received a six-month suspended sentence. In 1988 Ewing was convicted of felony grand auto theft and sentenced to a year in jail and three years' probation.
Feb. 22—A 57-year-old man accused of taking a wooden bat to his ex-girlfriend in Marion last year received a suspended jail sentence in Flathead County District Court earlier this month.