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What does sentence mean?

Updated: 4/27/2024
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11y ago

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Sometimes, when sentencing someone to prison for a number of crimes, the judge will require that, rather than serve the terms of the sentences for each crime one after another, they are served in parallel - together. Thus, if you are sentenced to 5 months for crime A and 10 months for crime B, then you will serve 10 months: the first five will be in respect of both crimes and the second for only B.

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The defendant has plead guilty or has been found guilty. The court puts off sentencing for a period of time to see if further developments should affect the sentencing. Typical of these would be the success or failure of drug treatment, restitution, community service, or simply a period with no further criminal activity.

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A sentence is a grammatical unit consisting of words that express a complete thought. It typically contains a subject and a predicate and functions as a statement, question, command, or exclamation. Sentences are the basic building blocks of written and spoken language.

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The noun "sentence" can be a collection of words to express a thought. It can also be used to mean a term of imprisonment for a criminal offense. The verb "to sentence" (someone) uses that meaning. It may be an actual ruling by a judge, or a metaphor for assigning someone to an unpleasant or onerous task.

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12y ago

It is a legal term, and a sentence is the punishment you are given after being caught and convicted of a crime.

Sentenced is a verb in the past tense, which means that a person has been convicted of a crime and have already been ordered their punishment by the courts.

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