first offender
first-time offender

A letter will be sent to the parents of first offenders.

The average term for a first offender is one to three years.

Even as a first offender, he will probably get five or six years."

First offenders could be suspended for up to nine months.

First offenders may still get off with a warning, enforcement officials said.

And, until June 1, 1988, only warnings will be given to first offenders.

"I know dozens of people in here who are first offenders.

Traditionally, a first offender in such a case gets a maximum of seven years.

According to those records, most of the women contacted and detained were first offenders.

This summer, he was released from jail under a special program that gives young first offenders a second chance.

He was given a 30-day suspended sentence last week and ordered into a program for first offenders.

Although some first offenders have escaped with just a warning, do not count on it.

I want boot camps for first offenders, 90 days, so they learn there are consequences.

A first offender may be imprisoned for 15 years.

In 1989, the rate for female first offenders given probation plummeted, to 9 percent.

Only first offenders get the benefit of an indeterminate sentence.

The problem, according to some experts, is that those who are caught are not really first offenders.

But you may get off on a bond, as a first offender.'

Otherwise, the maximum punishment for a first offender was fifteen years.

The judge was a young fellow who didn't even look up from his newspaper but simply said, "These all first offenders?"

First offenders rarely end up serving time, but it's a different story for repeaters.

There is a cost to law enforcement; some small number of those first offenders don't confess.

A judge had also persuaded her to take part in a probation program for juvenile first offenders he ran.

Such programs are typically offered to first offenders for whom more serious punishment does not seem warranted.

Through a one-year period that ended in May, only warnings had been issued to first offenders.