indeterminate sentencing
This depends on whether the state has a parole system and if the defendant is eligible for it. For a 15 year sentence, if a state has a parole system, the defendant could be required to serve at least five years, perhaps even more if, for example, the defendant was convicted of violent crime. Each state that has a parole system dictates the minimum time a person must serve before being eligible for parole.
1. The person committed 3 murders or kidnappings.2. In most States, a life sentence can be paroled to, say 15 or 20 years. So to keep the person in jail, 3 life sentences might be 60 years.3. Or, of course, if the crime was particularly nasty, the judge could order a life sentence with no possibility of parole. In that case, 3 life sentences wouldn't be useful - the person is going to be in jail forever, anyway.
Yes for example "Many years ago I was in love." or something
To antedate is to occur prior to something else. An example sentence would be: Her older brother's birth was an antedate to hers.
With the advent of the personal computer, the typewriter has been in obsolescence for many years.
Example sentence - He was released early from prison and placed on parole for 5 years.
In Georgia if you are sentenced to life in prison without parole, you will be in there until you die. If you have the option for parole, you could get out as soon as 7 years has been served.
If the sentence is life without parole, then the term is forever and no release will be granted. If the life term is with the possibility of parole, then the Parole Board will, for offenses that carry a mandatory minimum of 85% of the sentence, consider parole after approximately 25 years.
In South Carolina, a life sentence typically means the offender will serve a minimum of 30 years before becoming eligible for parole. However, for certain offenses, such as murder, a life sentence may mean imprisonment without the possibility of parole.
A natural life sentence means the person will be in prison until they die, while a life sentence may allow for the possibility of parole after a certain number of years.
Either..... Death Life without Parole Life (51 years) with the possibility of parole but no parole will be granted until the 51 years have been served. Basically the person will at the very least spend the rest of their life in jail.
The same as out of Court. Someone who is released from prison before they serve their entire sentence is on "parole" for the remainder of their sentence. For example if someone sits in jail for 6 months on a Felony Stealing charge and gets sentenced to 5 years then they go to prison. The 6 months they sat in jail counts towards their sentence. So if they do 2yrs in prison then get released on parole they are on parole the remainder of their sentence or 2.5 years.
A life sentence in America typically means imprisonment for the rest of the individual's life, without the possibility of parole. It does not have a set duration or specific number of years attached to it.
The maximum sentence a person can receive in the United States is life in prison without the possibility of parole.
In general, a federal life sentence is from 25 years in length to the actual entire life of the criminal. A life sentence without the possibility of parole is actually the entire natural life of the criminal.
a non parole period is when a person is sentenced and a time is placed on their sentence in which they will not be allowed out of jail until that time is up. For example, if you were sentenced to a total of 8 years in prison with a non-parole period of 6 years, you would have to spend 6 years in prison before having the possiblility to be released early. Suspended sentence is when a trial has finished, the sentence can be suspended to a later date for various reasons.
The term "30 to life" refers to a criminal sentence where a person is sentenced to a minimum of 30 years in prison, with the possibility of parole after serving that time. The "life" part of the sentence means that the person could potentially remain in prison for the rest of their life if they are not granted parole.