No matter what my _sympathies are toward you; I cannot ignore the crime, I must pass formal sentence, which according to the law, cannot be less than six months' imprison-But Congress has given Federal judges the power to suspend sentence if they think fit to do so. - But the difficulty in the is getting you back to tke United States, The only way I can see is tossend_you back to prison.
Mr. Davies (interrupting):—May the Court pardon me for interrupting, but T understand that on discharge the Marine Corps will send them home.
Dr. Sellett:—I understand not.
His Honour: About the only, thing T can see to do. is to sentence these men for a year and a day. Probably after six months, they will be! paroled and released—if you behave yourselves. That will be about, the minimum sentence. If the military will send them home I will enter: tain a motion for suspension sentence. If not, they must go to MeNeil's Island Penitentiary, where after six months they can ask for parole.
They wore sentenced accordingly.
Before the Court rose, Mr. Davies asked the sentence to run from their date of arrest, but his Honour said that their sEntence must begin from the day they enter prison.
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