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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.
A suspended sentence is a sentence on conviction for a criminal offence, the serving of which the court orders to be deferred in order to allow the defendant to perform a period of probation. If the defendant does not break the law during that period and fulfills the particular conditions of the probation, the sentence is usually considered ...
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 standard 'vanilla' approach to locate the end of a sentence: [clarification needed] (a) If it is a period, it ends a sentence. (b) If the preceding token is in the hand-compiled list of abbreviations, then it does not end a sentence. (c) If the next token is capitalized, then it ends a sentence. This strategy gets about 95% of sentences ...
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.
Craig Wright, an Australian computer scientist who for years falsely claimed to be Satoshi Nakamoto, was found to be in contempt of court Thursday and received a suspended prison sentence.
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 odds are high you’ve had a cough before in your life, but each time can throw you for a loop. Even though you’ve been through this, it can be hard to know when to see a doctor for a cough ...