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A federal judge in Alexandria re-sentenced a former third-grade teacher at a Muslim school who was involved in a group known as the "Virginia jihad network" to 15 years in prison.
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Without industrial farming, billions would starve, even though other billions would be re-sentenced to the short lives of brutal, backbreaking toil from which they were rescued by industrial/mechanised farming.
Stan Goff: It's Not Rocket Science: Land Productivity, Food Rights 2009
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Also, they are saying that there is not retroactivity in the Governor's bill, meaning that those who were convicted under these harsh sentences in the past, will not be re-sentenced.
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If we don't, then I'm going to be re-sentenced to prison by the same judge and prosecutors, which I say, parenthetically with an exclamation point, is probably the most bizarre twist yet.
Andrew Kreig: Siegelman Deserves New Trial Because of Judge's 'Grudge,' Evidence Shows 2009
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On January 7, 2008, the day before his appeal was to begin; Israel re-sentenced him to six months of community service instead. '
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Most of the drug offenders who were re-sentenced and released under those incremental "reforms" had convictions for the possession or the sale of large quantities of illegal narcotics.
Randy Credico: American Injustice -- Anthony Williams and New York's Drug Laws 2008
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On March 10, 1999, Judge Kopf granted a motion that she be re-sentenced under revised federal sentencing guidelines.
Concrete Bed 2008
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Nevertheless, the lower court re-sentenced her to death on a "discretionary" basis, for the benefit of "public interest" and to "protect the creed, souls and property of this country."
Rights Group Wants Saudis To Commute Death Sentence of Convicted "Witch" Howard M. Friedman 2008
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On the government's appeal, the Eighth Circuit re-sentenced her to 27 years, prompting Kopf to say, "This is the most unfair perversion of justice that I can think of."
Concrete Bed 2008
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On January 7, 2008, the day before his appeal was to begin; Israel re-sentenced him to six months of community service instead.
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