It wouldn't win her any special favors or leniency.

Under federal sentencing guidelines adopted in 1991, companies convicted of criminal acts could win leniency if they had procedures to ferret out illegal conduct.

(The testimony of the informer, who defense lawyers could argue made up his story to win leniency, is likely to be far less convincing to a jury.)

In a move that his friends said was calculated to win leniency from the judge who is to sentence him later this month on conspiracy and extortion charges, Mr.

Like other arrested Qaeda members who have helped investigators, he was most likely motivated by an attempt to win leniency from his captors, the German authorities.

On Wednesday, after lawyers for each unsuccessfully sought to win leniency by blaming another of the men, both sons were in jail.

According to court documents, the two attorneys spun a complicated scheme to win leniency in a drug trafficking case.

Many had hoped to win leniency by demonstrating their willingness to cooperate with the campaign against terror.

He said it demonstrated that significant cooperating witnesses were willing "to lie through their teeth" to please the government and win leniency.

The lobbyist, he said, was "singing for his supper" and making false charges to win leniency from the government.