Judging. Crimes and offences

Here are some of the sentences possible in an English court. 
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Community Service
You have to d a period (eg.100 hrs) of unpaid work  in hospitals/old people’s homes
Fines 
You pay money to the court
Probation 
You have to stay out of trouble. Once a week you visit a “probation officer”, who asks about your behavior
Suspended Prison
You don’t go to prison immediately, eg. “a six-month  sentence sentence suspended for one year” means if you behave well for one year, you are free. If you do something wrong, you go to prison for six months.
Prison 
You go for a fixed period (ranging from a very short Period to “life.”
Death Penalty:
A person is put to death by the state as a punishment for a crime.

Cases:

1. 8-year-old Miranda worked in a shoe-shop. She lost her job when she stole $92 from the shop.
2. Nigel is 38. He drank a bottle of wine and then drove home. He had a car accident and killed a 13-year-old boy.
3. Kevin, 15, was caught traveling on the train without a ticket. The correct ticket would have cost $1.75.
4. Stacey, aged 22, was caught selling marijuana at a disco. At her flat about 50 grams of the drug was found. (value/ around $250).
5. Dean, 17, broke the window of a new Mercedes and stole a mobile phone and four CD’s.
6. Samira is 32. She killed her husband wit a knife while he was asleep. He had been very cruel and violent with her for more than 10 years, and he often had girlfriends.
7. The accused is a prisoner of war. Your country has just defeated His. He was a pilot. He dropped an atom bomb on your tenth largest city, killing 200,000 people and injuring many more.
8. The accused is a doctor. He gave an overdose to an 85-year-old painter who had terminal cancer. The painter had asked for the overdose. The painter’s family accuse the doctor of murder.
9. The accused found her husband in their bed with another woman. She took the bread knife and killed him.
10. This man is a well-known leader of a radical organization. He was recently tried for possessing one marijuana cigarette and sentenced to ten years in prison. He is appealing the decision.
11. This factory owner is on trial for cruel and inhuman treatment. The workers in his factory had a sit-down strike to protest against low wages. The owner set rats loose in the factory. The workers killed all the rats and no one was hurt.
12. This woman was given thalidomide while she was pregnant. She gave birth to a baby without arms and legs. When it was two months old, she smothered it while it was sleeping.
13. These three teenage boys were having a fight with a fourth boy near a swimming pool. They threw him in the water and then stood on him till he drowned.
14. These five adults were sitting not far from the pool and watched the fight. They did nothing and are accused of complicity.