71.   Often Congress will set a maximum penalty but let the commission determine when that maximum would apply and under what circumstances a lesser sentence might be justified.

72.   Prosecutors instead charged Abe with professional negligence leading to death, a charge that carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison.

73.   Prosecutors also pointed out that Kinchen was shot in the groin, urging the jury to impose the maximum penalty because of the brutality of the crime.

74.   Scalping is an unclassified misdemeanor with a maximum penalty of less than a year in jail and a fine.

75.   Rioting carries a maximum penalty of four years in prison, while assault and sexual abuse can bring seven years.

76.   Shakur faces a maximum penalty of two and a third to seven years.

77.   Savvy about the system, Cabrera knows that the maximum penalty is rarely imposed.

78.   Six months is the maximum penalty under the Securities and Exchange Law.

79.   That raised the possibility that he might be tried on charges of espionage and sabotage, for which the maximum penalty is death.

80.   The assistant district attorney, Melissa Mourges, in seeking the maximum penalty, said that Shakur had been arrested in other cities on gun possession charges.