Bunker expected a 20-year sentence, but thanks to the solicitations of influential friends and a lenient judge, he got only five years.

A more lenient placing judge might have called it a dead heat, because the official margin of a nose appeared to refer to a mosquito's nose.

Trying to fight liberal politicians and lenient judges with bullets.

This he defines as characterized by 'hostility towards welfare (it makes people lazy), toward lenient judges (they encourage crime), and toward socially conscious schools.

An overly lenient judge let the celebrity off with a small fine, quickly forgotten community service, and promised phone calls to a psychiatrist.

It represents a legislative sentencing determination, often because the legislatures don't trust lenient judges.

But by then, he had become the poster child in a conservative campaign against pointy-headed, lenient judges.

Do it, and I'll drop four of those charges and put him in front of a lenient judge.

Upon introduction of the bill she said she wanted to "motivate lenient judges to give out tougher sentences."

During his 27 years on the bench he was considered one of the state's most lenient and liberal Federal judges and decided several cases of national significance.