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The Russian judicial system might enjoy giving her slightly less and taking some credit for showing some leniency, but I don't think we're talking about her being released, judging Vladimir Putin has proven to be a very mistake-filled passion on the part of Western analysts who thought he wouldn't invade [Ukraine], thought he wouldn't do this, and he does these things. So he might surprise us again. – Tom Schwartz	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I don't think judges are going to be too intimidated, but for those few who have the ambition to go to a higher court, they may think twice about leniency, that's unfortunate. They should only be thinking about the defendant in front of them. – Shira Scheindlin	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The horror of child pornography is exponentially worse than it was a decade ago, and judges handing out lenient sentences for these criminals is a big reason why, while the White House continues to dismiss concerns about leniency toward child porn offenders as a ‘desperate conspiracy theory,’ the numbers speak for themselves. Congress must act before this problem becomes even worse. – Josh Hawley	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
He never engaged in blackmail or attempt to blackmail as he never asked for money. He never had a financial request, i think the verdicts are less severe than those requested by the prosecutor, I see leniency and clemency in them. – Tewfik Bouzenoun	Found on CNN 2 years ago
No Chinese company can openly challenge the Chinese Communist Party and expect leniency, [Didi] is too big and too powerful for its own good and its has already crossed a threshold with China's leadership. – Alex Capri	Found on CNN 2 years ago
No Chinese company can openly challenge the Chinese Communist Party and expect leniency. – Alex Capri	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Stubbornness is not the opposite of leniency, but the extension of tolerance. – Clifford Villalon	added by anonymous 3 years ago
Huffman's lawyers argued that the sentencing guidelines in those cases were much higher and reserved for the mastermind of schemes, not mere participants. Prosecutors, meanwhile, had argued that universities and testing companies were the victims of the schemes, and the amount that parents paid should correspond to the penalties' severity.But US Probation and Pretrial Services, which prepares pre-sentence investigation reports for each defendant, has argued overall, that the universities and testing companies suffered no monetary harm, and the price of the parents' bribes is therefore not relevant to any sentences. Actress Felicity Huffman loved ones wrote letters of support to the judgeMacy and other loved ones submitted letters to Judge Indira Talwani on Huffman's behalf, pleading for leniency. Each letter outlined Huffman's loyalty and commitment to the writer — an attempt to show Actress Felicity Huffman role in the admissions scam was an outlier in Actress Felicity Huffman life. Macy also shed some light on the immediate aftermath of Huffman's early morning arrest by the FBI in March.Two days after the arrest, Macy wrote, their eldest daughter was headed for an audition at a school she had her heart set on — one that didn't require SAT scores. But when Actress Felicity Huffman got off the plane, the school emailed Actress Felicity Huffman, formally rescinding its audition invitation because of the scandal. Eva Longoria and other celebrities write letters of support for actress Felicity Huffman ahead of Eva Longoria sentencingMacy wrote Eva Longoria and other celebrities daughter. – Eva Longoria	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Private prisons have the same standards and guidelines as federal prisons, there is a lot more accountability for private prisons. Union workers in public prisons provide a lot of leniency for their employees. In a private prison, a majority are not unionized, so the oversight is very rigid. – Gerges Scott	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
The biggest challenge in relationship to the leniency agreements is judicial security for the companies. – Alessandra Gonsales	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
There are more, there are leniency agreements underway that talk about this, but until they are finalized we will not know how many (projects) for sure. – Carlos Lima	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
They said, 'If you don't start telling the truth, we're going to offer you or your boyfriend the chance to tell the truth, and whoever goes first will get leniency,' i believe when the truth comes out, people are going to look at each other and say, 'That is the most horrific story I've ever heard. I can't imagine what she's gone through.'. – Jeff Kane	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
The fact that the agency provided leniency on the home risk assessments is a good thing. However, fully phasing in the risk adjustment model could be detrimental to some plans. – Ipsita Smolinski	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
it would not be a good impression that even the heads can be lax because of Company’s leniency – Hippocrates	added by anonymous 11 years ago

The Russian judicial system might enjoy giving her slightly less and taking some credit for showing some leniency, but I don't think we're talking about her being released, judging Vladimir Putin has proven to be a very mistake-filled passion on the part of Western analysts who thought he wouldn't invade [Ukraine], thought he wouldn't do this, and he does these things. So he might surprise us again.

– Tom Schwartz

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I don't think judges are going to be too intimidated, but for those few who have the ambition to go to a higher court, they may think twice about leniency, that's unfortunate. They should only be thinking about the defendant in front of them.

– Shira Scheindlin

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The horror of child pornography is exponentially worse than it was a decade ago, and judges handing out lenient sentences for these criminals is a big reason why, while the White House continues to dismiss concerns about leniency toward child porn offenders as a ‘desperate conspiracy theory,’ the numbers speak for themselves. Congress must act before this problem becomes even worse.

– Josh Hawley

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

He never engaged in blackmail or attempt to blackmail as he never asked for money. He never had a financial request, i think the verdicts are less severe than those requested by the prosecutor, I see leniency and clemency in them.

– Tewfik Bouzenoun

Found on CNN
2 years ago

No Chinese company can openly challenge the Chinese Communist Party and expect leniency, [Didi] is too big and too powerful for its own good and its has already crossed a threshold with China's leadership.

– Alex Capri

Found on CNN
2 years ago

No Chinese company can openly challenge the Chinese Communist Party and expect leniency.

– Alex Capri

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Stubbornness is not the opposite of leniency, but the extension of tolerance.

– Clifford Villalon

added by anonymous
3 years ago

Huffman's lawyers argued that the sentencing guidelines in those cases were much higher and reserved for the mastermind of schemes, not mere participants. Prosecutors, meanwhile, had argued that universities and testing companies were the victims of the schemes, and the amount that parents paid should correspond to the penalties' severity.But US Probation and Pretrial Services, which prepares pre-sentence investigation reports for each defendant, has argued overall, that the universities and testing companies suffered no monetary harm, and the price of the parents' bribes is therefore not relevant to any sentences. Actress Felicity Huffman loved ones wrote letters of support to the judgeMacy and other loved ones submitted letters to Judge Indira Talwani on Huffman's behalf, pleading for leniency. Each letter outlined Huffman's loyalty and commitment to the writer — an attempt to show Actress Felicity Huffman role in the admissions scam was an outlier in Actress Felicity Huffman life. Macy also shed some light on the immediate aftermath of Huffman's early morning arrest by the FBI in March.Two days after the arrest, Macy wrote, their eldest daughter was headed for an audition at a school she had her heart set on — one that didn't require SAT scores. But when Actress Felicity Huffman got off the plane, the school emailed Actress Felicity Huffman, formally rescinding its audition invitation because of the scandal. Eva Longoria and other celebrities write letters of support for actress Felicity Huffman ahead of Eva Longoria sentencingMacy wrote Eva Longoria and other celebrities daughter.

– Eva Longoria

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Private prisons have the same standards and guidelines as federal prisons, there is a lot more accountability for private prisons. Union workers in public prisons provide a lot of leniency for their employees. In a private prison, a majority are not unionized, so the oversight is very rigid.

– Gerges Scott

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

The biggest challenge in relationship to the leniency agreements is judicial security for the companies.

– Alessandra Gonsales

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

There are more, there are leniency agreements underway that talk about this, but until they are finalized we will not know how many (projects) for sure.

– Carlos Lima

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

They said, 'If you don't start telling the truth, we're going to offer you or your boyfriend the chance to tell the truth, and whoever goes first will get leniency,' i believe when the truth comes out, people are going to look at each other and say, 'That is the most horrific story I've ever heard. I can't imagine what she's gone through.'.

– Jeff Kane

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

The fact that the agency provided leniency on the home risk assessments is a good thing. However, fully phasing in the risk adjustment model could be detrimental to some plans.

– Ipsita Smolinski

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

it would not be a good impression that even the heads can be lax because of Company’s leniency

– Hippocrates

added by anonymous
11 years ago

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