sentence to

sentence (one) to (something)

To impose a particular legal penalty upon one who is found guilty of a crime. The judge sentenced the former CEO to 30 years in prison for his role in defrauding millions of customers over the span of 15 years. They sentenced him to 5 years of hard labor for simply stealing a loaf of bread.
See also: sentence
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

sentence someone to something (for something)

[for a judge] to order someone to suffer confinement, death, or labor for committing a crime. The judge sentenced Roger to three years in prison for the crime. The judge sentenced him to hard labor.
See also: sentence
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • chain of command
  • start out at (something or some place)
  • start out at an amount of money
  • start off at (something or some place)
  • the blame for (something)
  • drop into (one's) lap
  • drop/fall into somebody's lap
  • cook the books
  • cook the accounts
  • be in the right spot at the right time
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There the Recorder of the States came to read the sentence to him.
He was also given a one-year suspended sentence to run concurrently for a robbery in Warrington in 2015.
KaradA3/4ic also said that the court failed to offer an explanation of its decision to raise his sentence to life imprisonment from the first-instance sentence of 40 years that was handed down in 2016.
In Missouri, sentencing ranges are found in statutes, (1) and these statutes help trial judges determine what sentence to impose.
The first tranche of reforms--which reflected community concern about the seriousness of the Sims case--restricted the use of suspended sentences by requiring courts to take into account, when deciding whether or not to suspend the sentence, such factors as the capacity of the sentence to deter, denounce, and reflect the gravity of the offense, the offender's response to any previous suspended sentences, and the risk that the offender would reoffend during the operational period of the sentence.
Defendant, by contrast, argues that '1 day to life' is an unmodifiable sentence to which he must be sentenced.
Among her topics are early sentencing practices for serious crimes: from the fixed sentence to indeterminate sentencing, commission-based sentencing guidelines in states, mandatory minimum sentencing and three strikes laws, philosophical issues and ethical challenges of sentencing reforms, and social science research into whether the goals of sentencing reform have been met.
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During the course of proceedings, Lateef Khosa counsel for Tauseef Abbas appeared before the court and informed that the trial court awarded death sentence to accused over killing a lawyer Shahid Hameed in court premises in Gujrat in 2002.
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(37) The sentencing judge's role was, in effect, the role of sentencing expert, using whatever information about the offender or his offense that the judge deemed appropriate to fashion the appropriate individualized sentence to promote rehabilitation.
sentence to influence their decision through the psychological
Just as in mandatory sentencing systems, judges in discretionary systems must make factual findings to determine the appropriate sentence to impose.
In a statement, the office said Attorney General Jeremy Wright understood the decision would cause disappointment, but would not refer the sentence to the Court of Appeal as "he did not think they would find it to be unduly lenient and increase it".
identical sentence to have a much more negative effect on some offenders