After he turned down the plea bargain, a grand jury indicted Webb on fourth degree criminal contempt. |
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In February 1998, he delivered a rousing speech in Kiev's Hall of Deputies that climaxed with a plea to privatize the telephone system. |
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However, prosecutors were more likely to accept a plea bargaining offer from white defendants accused of racially aggravated offences. |
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After a lengthy plea from a social worker, the judge reluctantly agrees to allow the boy to leave. |
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I am sad to say that my plea fell on deaf ears, and I was denied opportunity to put this plan into action. |
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The family of the couple packed the court to see Oakley change his plea at the 11 th hour. |
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Making a passionate plea for more public philanthropy in arts, she is of the opinion that industrial houses should take up this cause. |
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He had pleaded guilty on the first day of his trial to the lesser offence of theft, but that plea was not accepted by the Crown. |
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This collection represents a communal plea for peace from those who have had little of it in their lives. |
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Reports of the kindly and gentle Indon judges reading books and chatting while she made her plea were not encouraging. |
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The devastated parents of a man murdered in a Bolton town centre street have issued an emotional plea to help catch his killer. |
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Irish musicians are hoping their plea to stop US military aircraft refuelling at Shannon will strike the right chord with the Government. |
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I watched a plea for his life earlier today from his wife and I extend my sincere and heartfelt condolences to her and to all his family. |
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It is necessary to remember that a plea of justification may be pitched at one of three levels of gravity in relation to a defamatory sting. |
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She made a conflicted plea bargain in the case and received a stiff twenty-year to life sentence. |
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What Barsamian's questions provoke is an eloquent and desperate plea for direct, instantaneous action. |
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The emergency services have joined the hospital in a plea to parents to be more considerate of the potential danger caused by careless parking. |
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It is now six days since the 21-year-old was last seen and her family yesterday made an emotional plea for her to return. |
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But police have made an urgent plea for help in ensuring dealers from outside the area do not move in and take their place. |
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A villager has voiced an emotional plea to stop a proposed road scheme, which he says will devastate his wife's business. |
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Therefore, it turned down the plea of the exporters to refund the amount thus collected. |
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An urgent plea has been made for cash help for a charity which provides a vital service for vulnerable residents across Tendring. |
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A leading north west health expert has issued an urgent plea to food handlers who are suffering from colds to stay away from work. |
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The father of a missing Yorkshire woman has made an emotional plea for information about his daughter who vanished three weeks ago. |
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An urgent plea has been made to solve parking problems in a village before there is a serious accident. |
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I think the Home Office should seriously reconsider his urgent plea for asylum forthwith. |
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It's an example of infantilism, a regressive desire for boundarylessness, a plea for a love object that never disappoints. |
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His emotional plea moved the students to organise a special blood-giving day at the beginning of the college year. |
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Make your views known before it's too late, was the urgent plea being put out to Essex businesses. |
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The carnival is being organised by just four dedicated volunteers and Eileen, 62, has now made an urgent plea for help. |
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His attorneys moved on Wednesday to obtain a prompt hearing on his plea that he is legally entitled to release. |
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I have already said that I am not going to make a plea of diminished responsibility on the grounds of incapacity. |
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The guilty plea of the accused to both charges laid against him is also mitigating. |
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It seems that he indicated a plea of guilty even before the charge was amended. |
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The Chairman accepted my plea and ordered the deduction of daily allowance from my emoluments. |
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In the person of our heroine we are presented with a plea for emancipation. |
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She did so with reluctance certain that her urgent plea would go unanswered. |
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His plea for managers to be given clear objectives and left in peace was blamed for leaving banks to the mercy of spiv traders. |
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He was up on his hind legs recently giving an impassioned plea for young people to participate in politics. |
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Refusing to enter a plea or to appoint legal counsel, he challenged the legality and legitimacy of the war crimes tribunal. |
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It ends up being more a plea for tolerance than a scathing indictment of self-important religious rightness. |
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All accused persons can ordinarily expect to receive the benefit of some credit in the matter of sentence when proffering a plea of guilty. |
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On re-arraignment he pleaded guilty to her manslaughter on the ground of diminished responsibility, and that plea was accepted by the Crown. |
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Philosophically, we are now light years away from the era in which John F. Kennedy made his plea for separation of politics and faith. |
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However, despite a Labour Court plea not to proceed with any strike action until its ruling, cabin crews proceeded with Thursday's stoppage. |
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He appends a general plea to read his stuff, which if I am to comply will certainly help exercise my time-management skills. |
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The arbitral tribunal may rule on a plea referred to in paragraph of this article either as a preliminary question or in an award on the merits. |
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He could only plea with them to distinguish between combatants and those innocent civilians who do not bear arms. |
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He was arraigned earlier and the trial judge would not accept his plea of guilty. |
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He wasn't asked to plea during his appearance today and did not ask for bail. |
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We could have stalled the ruination of thousands of small production units if we had paid heed to the plea of a level-playing field. |
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Neither is the plea that violence and privation, the sacrifice of the present, may be the price of breaking through to a better future. |
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And he made an impassioned plea for changes to be made to prevent a similar tragedy happening again. |
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The second pitfall is that you are using a false plea in order to press your claim. |
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Robert's widow, Sharron Johnston, 44, has made a tearful plea for anyone with information to come forward. |
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The heartbroken mother of Easter murder victim Lucy Royle today made a tearful plea for help to find her savage killer. |
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Mr Hussain's 34-year-old widow Naila has made a tearful plea for help to catch her husband's killers. |
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His farewell address to the school is both a tearless confessional and an understated plea for redemption. |
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He provided some elaboration of his response to that plea in the course of his opening and in the course of answers to my questions. |
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You are a man clearly of great ability and hitherto good character and I give you full credit for that and your plea of guilty. |
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As the article says, it is a plea for the value of manners and their civilizing influence. |
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Both men have been bailed to appear at Bow Street Magistrates Court on March 2 when they will have an opportunity to enter a plea in the case. |
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From time to time I put out a plea for help in this column and was so grateful for the responses. |
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The plea deal was announced just two days after a key witness began testifying against him. |
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But that kind of clarification of my understanding of biblical teaching for evangelical groups has usually been a preface to a plea for humility. |
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In February 1559 he made a desperate plea to the queen to allow him to resign the governorship. |
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Yes, but the thing is, though, he said he wants to plea bargain so he gets out of the death penalty. |
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I have never encountered a plea of fair comment in this conditional form previously and the reason is not far to seek. |
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Here, tonight, I write to you stripped of all dignity and pride, in an unmitigated plea for help. |
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More fundamentally, it may offend the basic principle that the only point of such a plea is to justify a defamatory meaning. |
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I am writing this letter to send a plea out to the Airdrie people to keep an eye out for these creatures. |
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He said Yorath was a public figure, who had tried to be a role model, but he recognised that his guilty plea meant he had failed. |
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Critics saw the novel as an impassioned plea for the necessity of human free will. |
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Evidence of that frantic plea brings tears to her eyes, but they dry quickly. |
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In an action against the tug owners, there was a plea of contributory negligence in failing to cast off the towline when danger was imminent. |
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Your offer and plea for helping farming would have sounded credible if it was voluntary for us to help them. |
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This is a plea to all bar owners and councillors to help make Bolton a place to be proud of and to prevent these tragic accidents happening. |
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At Guantanamo, by contrast, interrogators can reward cooperators with better food, more creature comforts and favorable plea bargains. |
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In January, Liberal Democrat MP Malcolm Bruce urged Foreign Office ministers to back Gregory's plea against her sentence. |
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It was the same Government which made a plea to the Supreme Court that the scheme could not be run as they were short on money! |
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All that appears on the plea in mitigation is the fact that he believed that it contained ecstasy. |
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What is the remedy where a fraudulent plea in mitigation of sentence produces an inadequate sentence? |
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A plea of a fair and accurate report of foreign judicial proceedings was not demurrable. |
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The detainees resisted such standard blandishments as plea bargaining, cash, or relocation in the federal witness program. |
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The film is a brutal, blood-soaked plea for compassion and understanding in the face of monstrosity. |
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Under the plea bargain, he pleaded guilty to reduced charges of forgery and violating campaign laws that limit foreign funding. |
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I see this heartfelt plea repeated in different layouts in various corners of the two-sided sheet. |
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They're able to contact the home base at the bottom of the mountain via Morse code, where Annie's brother Peter hears their plea for help. |
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The defendant in a criminal action should be permitted to withdraw his plea of guilty given unadvisedly, either before or after judgment. |
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Youngsters in care made a direct plea to protesters opposing a new children's home. |
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He ignored perhaps a dozen requests for an interview, including a plea via his old mucker Cascarino. |
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Until today that is, when he copped a plea in U.S. District Court in Concord. |
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My piece was an attack on body fascism and a plea for tolerance of an infinite variety of body types. |
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One of the first things a prosecutor does in a plea negotiation with a crooked pol is try to force the pol to resign his or her office. |
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There was a great deal of variation, ranging from the mundanely technical to the anguished plea for understanding and cooperation. |
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But before she made her final impassioned plea to her seemingly unenlightened colleagues, the air had been thick with expectation. |
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When she hit the desk and fell to the ground, unmoving, I wondered to myself if a plea of self defense would do me any good. |
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It was an unequivocal plea for land nationalisation and the abolition of private ownership of land. |
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His plea during the recent recess for more grown-up behaviour in PMQs was a Speakerly form of naming and shaming. |
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There was evidence that he could not be extradited to Italy, and his plea was rejected. |
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A plea has been made on behalf of the Augustinian Missions for any old Irish notes or coins which may be lying around the house uselessly. |
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The two incidents brought a plea from the dentist and his colleagues for people to monitor their dentures and bridges. |
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The Quraish sent two emissaries to make a plea before the Abyssinian king, the Negus, to return the refugees back to Quraish. |
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Her motives for this disastrous plea are never clearly explained, but evidently she wants to protect Arthur. |
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During a hearing on Monday, his solicitor entered no plea and made no application for bail. |
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Only 14 cases actually went to trial, ultimately yielding ten plea bargains, two acquittals, and only two guilty verdicts. |
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Could it be a little well-timed revenge for the court's nixing his wife's plea agreement? |
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The pair did not enter a plea and the case was adjourned until Monday November 29 when it is due to be heard before Tanzania's High Court. |
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In the federal courts the defendant in a criminal prosecution may, under most circumstances, enter a plea of nolo contendere. |
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The Report concludes with a synthesis of the issues and a plea for government to play an even more interventionist role in the second economy. |
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She entered a guilty plea without having gone through a preliminary hearing. |
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His unsuccessful plea for an upper house based on a hereditary colonial peerage was mocked as a bunyip aristocracy. |
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Because of the overwhelming response to my plea for questions, I will be caching them and answering a few each day. |
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The plaintiffs attacked this plea on the grounds that it offended against the repetition rule. |
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The guilty plea procedure is sometimes the result of plea-bargaining between the prosecution and defence counsel. |
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Granting that this plea of tender into court is defective, it would not render the petition insufficient to state a cause of action. |
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Today his parents have made a heartfelt plea for teenagers to share their problems following the death of their son. |
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He again reiterated that he would not have entered his guilty plea had he known of this additional licence suspension. |
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In a plea to the Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the MP said Selby was proud of its mining tradition. |
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The defendants put forward a plea of justification, based on the issue of the writ itself. |
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Even with a guilty plea the defendant was allowed to bring in character witnesses. |
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However, the estoppel plea fails where some specific facts pertaining to the transaction ought to have put the chargee or purchaser on notice. |
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And here again, I think it's time to reiterate my plea for the historiographic interpretation of continuing characters. |
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A speeding driver who cheated death in a horrific collision has made a desperate plea for Swindon motorists to slow down. |
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There was a plea for cooperation between all departments in identifying child abuse. |
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Another plea for technical help, with sweeties after for anyone who helps me. |
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Her talk before the Pennsylvania delegation was, in part, a plea for a return to civility. |
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Everything went smoothly until the judge was about to pass sentence in accordance with the plea bargain. |
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The raising by the trial judge of a possibility of a guilty plea, carried with it the obligation to exercise a high degree of care when the applicant wished to resile from her plea of guilty. |
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Problems so big it only makes common sense for Bieber to bypass any plea offer and move forward with a trial. |
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Yet, relative to the massive amount of attention, shock, and criticism, I can only muster a shrug and a plea to chill out. |
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To my contemporary ears, the plea sounds achingly, foolishly optimistic. |
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After the trial judge had disposed of the motion on November 29, 2001 relating to the date on the jurat, the defendant entered a plea of not guilty to both counts. |
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Karezza makes a plea for a better birthright for the child, and aims to lead individuals to seek a higher development of themselves through the most sacred relation. |
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He had been due to stand trial next week but, at the hearing for plea and directions before the Recorder of Bradford, Judge Stephen Gullick, he admitted the offence. |
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The FDA is hoping to remedy the dearth of knowledge with a plea aimed at influential drugmakers. |
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We'll start with a plea for this year to just finish already. |
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A plea for more toilets in Twickenham town centre on rugby days has been made by residents who are tired of people relieving themselves in the open air. |
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A guilty plea with a sentence of life would bring much desired closure and finality. |
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The day the restraining order was issued, Houghton wrote a plea on his Facebook page. |
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The three have been given 45 days to accept a plea offer that the government has not yet specified. |
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There has clearly been an element of special pleading here, but it is not actually a plea to ministers for more cash, it is just a bald and factual statement of the problems. |
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And now, in the light of the recent thaw in relations between Libya and the West, Scotland Yard detectives have agreed to carry her plea to the ears of the dictator. |
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His eyes begged a silent plea of forgiveness, but she only shook her head. |
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A mask and an unfired gun were found on his person, and the plea of self-defense was allowed. |
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His reply was quite the most mournful plea for understanding I had ever heard in three decades of involvement in the crazy inexplicable world of racing. |
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The more the peasant exerted himself in response to the government's plea for more production, the more he prospered and developed bourgeois attitudes. |
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The song's plea for action is underlined by their bright, clear choruses. |
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Schettino also tried to enter a plea bargain agreement, which ultimately was rejected by the Grosseto court. |
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Instead, Kolko received a plea deal that allowed him to plea guilty to child endangerment. |
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He plead guilty in a plea deal and was punished only with five years of probation. |
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Before accepting a plea of nolo contendere, the court must consider the parties' views and the public interest in the effective administration of justice. |
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Mike Giglio on why the plea could be a preemptive strike against looming accusations. |
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He said that either a Newton Hearing, in which the disputed evidence is challenged, or an agreed basis of plea needed to take place before he could proceed with the case. |
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It clearly does not mean a place where a clerk presides over a court on the record and purports to deal with matters that are before the court for plea and disposition. |
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Any matter which does not indicate with reasonable clearness but purports to be comment and not statement of fact, cannot be protected by the plea of fair comment. |
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If you are still a contented fallibilist, despite my plea to hear the sceptical argument afresh, you will probably be discontented with the Rule of Attention. |
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The vengeful squadron leader ignored the plea and shouted over the comm. |
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The ineffaceable quality of these early pictorial and literary impressions affords the strongest plea for good art in the nursery and the schoolroom. |
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Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. |
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She made an emotional plea to Wiltshire County Council to fund a bypass. |
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He made an urgent plea for the public to help catch the dealers. |
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The affidavit further stated, that the district attorney of the United States moved to strike off from the record the plea of tender as a nullity. |
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I think they were trying to get the defense to cop a plea in that case. |
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Let's say I walked after copping a plea to obstruction of justice. |
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It will be a cry from the heart as much as a plea to open the wallet. |
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Woven throughout the tale is a plea to those on the top of the pile to help the grifters and grafters and ex-cons and prostitutes find a place in society instead of in jail. |
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My plea also goes out to the parents of the ones doing these grisly acts. |
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In nearly all cases, the defendant enters a guilty plea before trial. |
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Her final plea that he entreat divine grace on her behalf can only be read, given the pains she took to equate divinity with intellect, as a request for intellectual freedom. |
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The probe was prompted by an exclusive story published in yesterday's Guardian, which told of the alleged encounters and also of a plea by the girl's mother for justice. |
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Would you please put out a plea this week for wool from readers, or from local wool shops who would be prepared to give us some free, so that the good work can continue. |
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With huge photographs of the carnage, and stories from hibakusha, they eloquently conveyed the heartfelt plea of most Japanese people for nuclear abolition. |
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The paper said the submission was made by the income tax department in its reply to Nokia's plea for the unfreezing of its assets in India. |
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Courts began recording their proceedings in plea rolls and filing writs from their foundation at the end of the 12th century. |
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The plea arose in local courts for slander, breach of contract, or interference with land, goods, or persons. |
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The judge at first instance refused to leave the defence of medical necessity to the jury so the defendant changed his plea to guilty. |
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This plea was refused and on 27 October, Servetus was burnt alive at the Plateau of Champel at the edge of Geneva. |
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In addition, they took depositions and acted as secretaries to the Lord Chancellor, maintaining the plea rolls. |
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Diego de Pantoja made a special plea to the court, requesting a burial plot in Beijing, in the light of Ricci's contributions to China. |
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In the courts, the members of the jury, who represented the population, had to know French in order to understand the plea of the lawyer. |
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As a result of plea bargaining, he would not be sentenced to death. |
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When offering an Alford plea, a defendant asserts his innocence but admits that sufficient evidence exists to convict him of the offense. |
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He remembers the sad, droning sound of a blowhorn from a dredge barge, a plea for help as it was swept out to sea. |
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He was able to plea down his sentence by revealing the names of three of his cohorts, as well as the source of the information. |
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The main sources for the history of the common law in the Middle Ages are the plea rolls and the Year Books. |
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The plea rolls, which were the official court records for the Courts of Common Pleas and King's Bench, were written in Latin. |
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Later, convinced by the advice of his brother and his own solicitor, Turing entered a plea of guilty. |
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One man who refused to enter a plea was crushed to death under heavy stones in an attempt to force him to do so. |
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Fawkes explained his not guilty plea as ignorance of certain aspects of the indictment. |
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When the prisoners were allowed to speak, Fawkes explained his not guilty plea as ignorance of certain aspects of the indictment. |
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In his plea for masculism John Macy defies the champions of present-day feminism. |
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On 31 March 2006 Hamed entered a plea of guilty and was warned he could face jail by a judge at Sheffield Crown Court. |
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Gladstone had absented himself from the funeral, with his plea of the press of public business met with public mockery. |
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On 26 November 2009, Karzai made a public plea for direct negotiations with the Taliban leadership. |
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Rule 11 states that the court must determine that a guilty plea is voluntarily made by addressing the defendant personally in court. |
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For the most minor offences where the appropriate sentence is a fine or discharge, this will usually follow immediately after a plea of guilty. |
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A DOG charity has issued an urgent plea to find foster homes for unwanted and abused greyhounds. |
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In the case of offences which are indictable only, no plea is taken and the case is sent forthwith to the Crown Court. |
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The plea deal represents a precipitous fall from grace, writes John Avlon. |
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The mother also made a plea to the violent ones who wreak such havoc. |
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I posted a plea for advice on my Facebook page, and we quickly got recommendations from several videophile friends. |
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I made a plea to my fellow Nobel laureate that we should forge a friendship to put end to child labour and make the world a safer place children. |
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Tragically, Ahmjid had misdialled the number in his panic and the police never heard his desperate plea for help. |
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Ahmjid misdialed as he was repeatedly stabbed and his plea for help was left on an answer machine. |
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American actress Suzanne Somers responded to the plea advising her to take 4 milk thistle after returning home following drinking. |
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Aussies Tom Hudson and Pete Fletcher, at sea nearly 98 days, put out a plea for supplies 30 miles off the Scilly Isles. |
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Other counts of mail fraud and receipt of stolen vehicles were dropped as part of the plea agreement. |
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He later accepted a plea deal that put him behind bars for 25 years. |
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Might I now add a plea for the smaller irises, the tinies? They, also, should be divided up and replanted just now. |
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They point out that many cases in adversarial systems, and most cases in the United States, are actually resolved by plea bargain or settlement. |
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The plea that the benefice was full more than six months before the writ was purchased was a good affirmative defense. |
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Most of the plea rolls have not been indexed, but modern indexes for some terms are available. |
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Seeking to injunct the BCCI from holding the AGM and elections, he said the tenure of BCCI president came to an end on September 9 and the CAB's plea be decided first. |
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Fast-track programs allow prosecutors in certain districts to offer below-Guidelines sentences in exchange for a defendant's guilty plea and waiver of certain rights. |
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The plea follows a call to the RSPCA by a Caernarfon resident who, cut down a garden tree, and found a juvenile collared dove which had been nesting there. |
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There should be no plea put in by him in his absences, that he had only gone to catch a few fish, when his intentions had been other than piscatorial. |
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Nothing in this article is to be construed as a neo-Luddite plea for a return to some ancient status quo of quill pens, ink stands, and parchment. |
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Cy Chadwick, 44, who played bad boy Nick Bates for more than a decade, confirmed his date of birth and address before entering a not guilty plea at Leeds magistrates court. |
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In one way the book is a straightforward defence of eccentricity, a plea for the importance of valuing individuals who choose to dance to a different tune. |
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If a successful challenge to a criminal prosecution under admiralty jurisdiction were to be made, the matter would be dismissed before any plea could be entered. |
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That I have wronged no man will be a poor plea or apology at the last day. |
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In 1997, the school system withdrew a similar plea for help after several city and state officials questioned the constitutionality of such an action. |
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His plea was successful and he received not only a license for the proposed expedition, but also authority over any lands conquered during the venture. |
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Indeed, the Italian Wars had begun when Milan sent a plea to King Charles VIII of France for protection against the aggressive actions of the King of Naples. |
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Earlier this month, Justice Ram Mohan Reddy, who was part of the division bench of the HC hearing the bail plea of the seer, had recused himself from the case. |
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If you do not plead, a plea of not guilty will be entered for you. |
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Barnardo's this year marks the centenary of the death of its founder, Dr Thomas Barnardo, with the plea that Britain does not write off a new generation of children. |
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The government made a plea to men liable to conscription, asking them to volunteer to work in the mines, instead, but few responded, and the manpower shortage continued. |
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He later petitioned the High Court for criminal revision, arguing that as the magistrate had not informed him of the defences available to him, his plea had been equivocal. |
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Henry gave only lackluster support to Frederick's policies, and in a critical situation during the Italian wars, Henry refused the Emperor's plea for military support. |
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During the troubles of the fifteenth century, a rack was introduced into the Tower, and was occasionally used under the plea of political necessity. |
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These were called plea rolls and were usually not publicly available. |
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In the event of a plea of guilty, the court will hear the facts of the case from the prosecution, and mitigation from the defence then consider sentence. |
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In 739, Pope Gregory III begged Charles for his aid against Liutprand, but Charles was loath to fight his onetime ally and ignored the Papal plea. |
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A paedophile doctor has been freed from jail after a parole board rejected a Scottish Government plea to keep him behind bars over fears he will attack children. |
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A DRIVER who killed a pedestrian he did not see because he hadn't demisted his windows escaped jail yesterday after a plea from the victim's family. |
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When Burton wanted Heston for a bit part, Zanuck booked a table at the very same Beverly Hills cafe and, some 30 years later, made the same begging plea. |
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Plea bargains are just not what they used to be cracked up to be. |
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Plea Not from Terra Medica is great for all staph and strep infections, as is the hapten Pleo San Staph. |
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Plea bargain as a system does not exist in an inquisitorial system. |
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