He was sentenced to the mandatory term of life in prison with no chance to apply for parole for 25 years, although he can ask a jury after 15 years to shorten that parole eligibility period.
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Where bargaining power is persistently unequal, the concept of inequality of bargaining power serves as a justification for the implication of mandatory terms into contracts by law, or the non-enforcement of a contract by the courts.
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Although he sentenced Jones to the mandatory term of life imprisonment, he set no minimum term, and wrote privately to the Home Secretary, Michael Howard, and defence counsel, John Rees QC, to express his doubts over the verdict.
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The most radical part of the governor's proposal _ reducing the mandatory terms for those serving the longest _ is not entirely objectionable to prosecutors, since it addresses a symbolically important but relatively small clutch of drug offenders.
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When he returned with his master's degree in 1974, he taught mathematics and electronics at Kabul University, eventually becoming vice chancellor before shaving his mustache, cutting his shoulder-length hair and serving a mandatory term in the Afghan army.
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The only exception to the five-year addition applied only when another provision required a longer mandatory term for conduct violating ?24 ( c ) specifically, rather than a mandatory sentence for another crime as the defendants had unsuccessfully argued.
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In contrast to the Articles of Confederation, the federal constitution convention at Philadelphia omitted mandatory term limits from the second national frame of government, i . e . the U . S . Constitution of 1789 to the present.
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In an era when a restless populace is clamoring for mandatory term limits to shorten the tenure of career politicians, Geren is leaving office voluntarily and abandoning Washington only seven years after succeeding the legendary Jim Wright on Capitol Hill.
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As we show, if reducing consumption or violence is the goal, more can be achieved by spending additional money arresting, prosecuting and sentencing dealers to standard prison terms than by spending it sentencing ( fewer ) dealers to longer mandatory terms.
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"There was a level of hysteria that led to a total breakdown of the legislative process, " said the lawyer, Eric Sterling, who as a lead lawyer on the House Judiciary Committee wrote the laws that established long mandatory terms for several drugs.
