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sentencer

  • a word derived from sentence.
    sentence
    noun
    a grammatical unit of one or more words that expresses an independent statement, question, request, command, exclamation, etc., and that typically has a subject as well as a predicate, as in John is here. or Is John here? In print or writing, a sentence typically begins with a capital letter and ends with appropriate punctuation; in speech it displays recognizable, communicative intonation patterns and is often marked by preceding and following pauses.

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I guess my one consolation is that Judge Adelman is known to be a very lenient sentencer.

From Slate ● Dec. 19, 2025

And if that’s the rule, he asked, is it enough that a state has a discretionary sentencing scheme, or must the sentencer indicate in some way that question has been considered?

From Washington Post ● Oct. 16, 2019

"How much youth matters and how a judge or a jury, whoever the sentencer is, has to take that youth into account. That's the lesson of Miller."

From Fox News ● Oct. 16, 2019

Judge John Shabaz of the federal court in Madison, Wisc., had a reputation as a strict sentencer who resolved cases at a brisk pace.

From Slate ● Jan. 18, 2011

Another Reagan appointee, Judge Stanley Marshall, told a reporter, “I’ve always been considered a fairly harsh sentencer, but it’s killing me that I’m sending so many low-level offenders away for all this time.”

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander