Word: leniently
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...relatively lenient sentences, handed down by a five-judge panel, drew harsh reactions beyond the courtroom, since they fell far short of what prosecutors had asked for: life imprisonment for four of the defendants and jail terms of between five and ten years for three others. Heinz Galinski, a Jewish spokesman in West Berlin, described the sentences as "an insult to all victims of the National Socialist regime." Even West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt told a group of Israelis who had formerly lived in West Germany that he found himself in "complete understanding" with the victims' relatives...
...more than 20 years to life. At Chapman's sentencing on Aug. 24, Marks plans to use the testimony of two psychiatrists and one psychologist-as well as his defendant's God-given plea-to argue that Chapman is insane and thus should be given the most lenient sentence...
Even within the system that they profess to despise, the youngsters have their sympathizers. Says Hans-Jochen Vogel, 55, the former S.P.D. mayor of West Berlin whose lenient approach to local housing squatters did nothing to endear him to already disenchanted voters in last May's local election: "There is definitely a youth protest that has spread all over. The real problem is understanding the motivation behind the movement. I see a lack of credibility among the young toward politicians and all things political, a feeling that too much of their life is administered for them...
...firing of the Titans, according to FBI investigators. The Air Force promptly changed the codes and charged Cooke with failing to report his meetings with Communist officials, a violation of military regulations. But Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, angry at both the Air Force and the Justice Department over that lenient treatment, telephoned Attorney General William French Smith to ask that criminal prosecution of Cooke be studied...
Allen Breed, director of the National Institute of Corrections, contends that courts have been both too lenient with violent criminals, who tend to repeat their offenses, and too harsh on all the others. Breed argues that many of these nonviolent convicts should be living in halfway houses and serving in work programs, in which they would be required to reimburse the victims from whom they stole or perform community services. Minnesota last year passed a law under which the nonviolent convict who endangers no one can be assigned by judges to these work programs. It is considered a model...