1.   And while the state court judges who sentence most offenders must consider the federal appeals court decision, they are not bound by it.

2.   Failure to properly register a firearm will be a criminal violation and offenders may be sentenced to up to five years imprisonment.

3.   In the area of crime, Pataki will renew his call for legislation imposing much tougher rules for prosecuting and sentencing juvenile offenders.

4.   More nonviolent and minor drug offenders should be sentenced to structured and supervised alternatives to prison.

5.   She also helped establish the Southeast Enhancement Project, in which judges sentence nonviolent offenders to perform community service in the neighborhoods of southeast Los Angeles.

6.   That includes receipt of stolen goods and other nonviolent offenses, if the offender was sentenced to at least a year in prison.

7.   The goal, prosecutors said, is to ensure felony convictions so that repeat offenders can be sentenced to state prison.

8.   The new law allows judges to sentence such offenders to time in jail.

9.   The repeat offender could be sentenced to six life terms.

10.   Under the change signed by Bush, judges now are allowed to sentence such offenders to time in jail.