1.   A wry injection of additional authenticity comes with a cameo by former D.C. mayor and convicted drug user Marion Barry as a sentencing judge.

2.   But in return for her cooperation the government agreed to cite her cooperation and ask the sentencing judge to depart downward from the federal sentencing guidelines.

3.   But the plea deal does not foreclose the sentencing judge from making him serve at least part of a possible two-year jail sentence.

4.   Having pleaded guilty to charges involving unorthodox sexual conduct, the celebrated TV personality faced the sentencing judge with all New York holding its breath.

5.   He should have asked permission from the sentencing judge.

6.   He wrote rambling letters, one threatening the lives of the sentencing judge and of an astrologer in California.

7.   Her lawyers had sought a commitment from the Justice Department that it would ask the sentencing judge to spare her prison.

8.   In both cases, the sentencing judge refused to consider their alleged gambling addiction as a justification for leniency.

9.   It also changes the way in which such people are designated, removing some discretion from the sentencing judge in favor of more specific criteria.

10.   Justice Marks visited the sentencing judge, Juanita Bing Newton, who had tried to impose a lesser sentence of eight years to life.