Example Sentences

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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 what we are asking for is a hearing in Virginia court where the Virginia sentencer will make that determination.”

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