41.   The new sentencing plan would do just that, Kuffner said, by requiring judges to impose fixed sentences instead of ones with a maximum and minimum.

42.   The personal-injury measure would also require judges to impose harsh financial penalties on lawyers who brought frivolous suits, something now left to the option of judges.

43.   The order, which applies to officials at Citibank and BankBoston, comes after another judge imposed similar restrictions on the chairman of the largest financial holding company.

44.   The second-degree murder verdict will allow the judge to impose a sentence less than life.

45.   The Senate bill does not go that far but does allow a judge to impose sanctions against the losing lawyer.

46.   These findings made Ring eligible for the death penalty, which the judge then imposed.

47.   Though petitioner was convicted of capital murder, the judge imposed a sentence of life imprisonment.

48.   Those mandates, known as the Rockefeller laws, require state judges to impose minimum sentences for a variety of drug offenses.

49.   Until now, the judge had imposed a complete ban.

50.   We made it more difficult for a judge to impose juvenile sanctions in an adult court.