Assertion: sentencing discretion | /r/AtLocation | later centuries
Facets:
value: often
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: As long ago as 1361 justices of the peace were empowered to punish offenders ‘according to that which to them shall seem best to do by their discretions and good advisement’,70 and in later centuries the sentencing discretion was often described in statutes as