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A discharge is a type of sentence imposed by a court whereby no punishment is imposed. An absolute discharge is an unconditional discharge whereby the court finds that a crime has technically been committed but that any punishment of the defendant would be inappropriate and the case is closed. In some jurisdictions, an absolute discharge means ...
Justice Juan Merchan sentenced President-elect Donald Trump to an unconditional discharge on Friday. The measure is a rare and lenient sentence in the New York state court system that still means ...
An unconditional discharge is authorized if a conditional discharge is authorized and if "the court is of the opinion that no proper purpose would be served by imposing any condition upon the ...
Unconditional discharge is, in effect, a non-punishment — a way that New York courts can acknowledge someone's conviction as valid while simultaneously releasing them "without imprisonment, fine ...
A sentence of conditional imprisonment may be combined with fines or, if the sentence is longer than eight months, with community service of at least 14 and up to 120 hours. [3] Additional surveillance of the convicted can also be ordered, if it is seen as necessary to reduce recurrent criminal behaviour.
Archuleta filed a pro se petition (a petition to represent himself) for habeas corpus relief (seeking relief for unlawful detention) in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Western District of Missouri in October, 2002, requesting an unconditional discharge and release from confinement in the prison hospital. He argued that the statute under which ...
President-elect Donald Trump was sentenced Friday in the Story Daniels hush money case, with Judge Juan Merchan ordering an “unconditional discharge” on 34 felony counts. The sentence means ...
A party typically only demands unconditional surrender when it has a significant advantage over their adversaries, when victory is thought to be inevitable. In modern times, unconditional surrenders most often include guarantees provided by international law. In some cases, surrender is truly accepted unconditionally; while in other cases terms ...