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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 ...
The meaning of absolute or conditional discharge does not exist as such in United States law. However, different jurisdictions within the United States have a variety of analogues. The most direct is the suspended sentence or sentencing to "time served", meaning time spent in custody until sentencing. Many or most states also have alternative ...
A deferred sentence is a sentence that is suspended until after a defendant has completed a period of probation.If the defendant fulfills the stipulations surrounding probation, a judge may then throw out the sentence and guilty plea, clearing the incident from their record.
Stark County Family Court Magistrate Priscilla J. Cunningham also gave him a six-month suspended sentence in the Ohio Department of Youth Services, and a 90-day sentence in the Multi-County ...
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 ...
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.
The concept of probation, from the Latin, probatio, "testing", has historical roots in the practice of judicial reprieve.In English common law, prior to the advent of democratic rule, the courts could temporarily suspend the execution of a sentence to allow a criminal defendant to appeal to the monarch for a pardon.
Daniel Wiechmann pleaded guilty to two counts of intent to commit sexual abuse and one count of indecent contact with a child.