lenience
Example Sentences
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While at Pinellas County Jail, he testified against or volunteered information on more than two dozen defendants in exchange for lenience from prosecutors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Alex is told to co-operate in exchange for "lenience" – but says he wants to seek legal advice.
From BBC ● May 20, 2026
Anger at the jury’s lenience swept through San Francisco, especially its gay community.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2023
Her lawyers say they hope such testimony will bring lenience from the judge, who they say under Russian law has leeway to consider mitigating factors.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 1, 2022
On my return I was, as I had expected, put to the question, with lenience by Keller Bey, but with biting irony and something like personal dislike by the Procureur Raoux.
From A Tatter of Scarlet Adventurous Episodes of the Commune in the Midi 1871 by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
