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n. (context legal English) a criminal sentence of a predetermined minimum period of time which a judge is required by statute to impose upon a conviction for a crime
Usage examples of "mandatory sentence".
It's technically a mandatory sentence but the judge has some discretion.
Evins, and the three of them received the mandatory sentence for that crime—.
Evins, and the three of them received the mandatory sentence for that crime-death administered by a pistol shot in the back of the head.
He has declared himself unaware of the fact that under our judicial code conviction for this crime entails a mandatory sentence of not less than one year’.
A two-time loser for savage rape, he had received the mandatory sentence: surgical neutering and lifetime imprisonment, no parole.
Dollar Bill felt confident that the jails were far too overcrowded for any judge to consider the thirty-day mandatory sentence for such cases.
A mandatory sentence of six years of persecution for one mistake, one accident, seemed like an eternity.
The Service, acting in its capacity as administrator of the Emperor's justice, promptly carried out the mandatory sentence for treason: death.
Dealing with any of those three drugs carries a mandatory sentence to one of the mining colonies.
To be found in possession of such a ring brings a mandatory sentence of a year's imprisonment-longer, if the nature of the crime is particularly nasty.
What was the mandatory sentence for trying to break a psychic free from a military compound?