LEAD: "It was a very fair sentence, if I had been guilty."

It was not a fair sentence.

"I think it's a pretty fair sentence," Mr. Loewenson said.

We must have fair and equal sentences for defendants in our courts, without regard to race, gender, education or citizenship.

Even if we sentence him by kangaroo, it must be a fair trial and a fair sentence.

Afterwards, Mr. Webb said the sentence "was a very fair and proper sentence."

And you understand that it wasn't a fair sentence?

Consecutive might give him eighty years in jail, but a fair sentence is ten.

If his ruling is overturned, Judge Bell said, he will impose a fair sentence on the King brothers.

Justice Solomon then described his struggle to come up with a fair sentence.