Sentencing is the stage where the punishment is decided. Sentencing hearing, sentencing guidelines, adjourned for sentencing.
It comes after conviction and is a separate exercise with its own hearing, its own evidence and its own rules — guidelines set ranges and the judge explains where in the range the case falls and why. Consistency between judges is the whole reason guidelines exist. Note sentence; and that a sentence here is a judgement pronounced.
1nounsentencingThe stage where the punishment is decided.
“The man was found guilty and will return to court for sentencing next month.”
sentencing is a stage of a trial.
Proto-Indo-European
*sent- — to feel
Latin
sententia — way of thinking, opinion, sentiment
Middle French
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English
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English, today
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sentence Middle French sentence, from Latin sententia (“way of thinking, opinion, sentiment”), from sentiēns, present participle of sentiō (“to feel, think”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European sent- (“to feel”).
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