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Alford and left
SgtMaj Alford McMichael ( left ) salutes as General Jones ( center ) relinquishes command to General Michael Hagee ( right ).
In the 1990s, former Duran Duran drummer Sterling Campbell joined the band, but left in 2000 to tour with David Bowie and was replaced that year by Zachary Alford, who had recorded and toured with the band during the Cosmic Thing era.
In 1870 he succeeded Dean Alford as editor of the Contemporary Review, but left it in 1877 owing to the objection of the proprietors to the insertion of articles ( by W. K. Clifford notably ) attacking Theism and founded the Nineteenth Century ( to the title of which, in 1901, were added the words And After ).
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Richie Vasquez left the band due to a prior road / gig commitments and suggested Bruce Alford.
In 2002, Alford left the band and Mark Reznicek, formerly of the Toadies, took over on drums.
The attorney recommended Alford plead guilty to the lesser charge of second-degree murder in order to face a lesser sentence, but left the decision to Alford.
She also had a supporting role in the TV movie Danger Beneath the Sea as Lisa Alford, the pregnant wife who's left alone in a town where she does not really know anyone after her husband leaves for the submarines.

Alford and house
Court testimony showed Alford and the victim argued at the victim's house.
The house is owned by Alford and District Civic Trust Ltd which is a Registered Charity ( No. 252330 ).
There were no eyewitnesses to the murder, but witnesses swore that Alford had taken his gun from his house and declared he was going to kill the victim, and upon returning, stated that he had killed the victim.

Alford and victim
Evidence in the case included testimony from witnesses that Alford had said after the death of the victim that he had killed the individual.

Alford and received
Born in Alford, Lincolnshire, England, Anne was the daughter of Francis Marbury, an Anglican minister and school teacher who gave her a far better education than most girls received.
The Marburys lived in Alford for the first 15 % nbsp ; years of Anne's life, and with her father's strong commitment to learning, she received a better education than most contemporary girls, and also became intimately familiar with scripture and Christian tenets.
At the end of the season Coach Alford received a ten year contract extension through the 2019 – 20 season.

Alford and when
In October 2008, the United States Department of Justice defined an Alford plea as: " when a the defendant maintains his or her innocence with respect to the charge to which he or she offers to plead guilty ".
According to Alford Welch, the Jewish practice of having three daily prayer rituals appears to have been a factor in the introduction of the Islamic midday prayer but that Muhammad's adoption of facing north towards Qiblah ( position of Jerusalem-Islam's first Qiblah or direction of prayer, and now present Qiblah towards Kabah in Makkah ) when performing the daily prayers however was also practiced among other groups in Arabia.
In 1605, when Anne was 14, the family moved from Alford to the heart of London where her father was given the position of vicar of the Church of Saint Martin's in the Vintry.
After police confirmed Pierce was the focus of their investigation, he was dismissed from the basketball team by coach Steve Alford on February 2, with Alford saying that had betrayed the trust they placed in him when he was given a second chance two years prior.

Alford and opened
The construction of the Alford Valley Railway started in 1856 and the line opened in 1859 as a Great North of Scotland Railway ( GNSR ) branch line from Kintore railway station, northwest of Aberdeen, with stations at Kemnay, Monymusk, Tillyfourie, Whitehouse and Alford.
After fourteen previews, the Broadway production, directed by Alford and choreographed by Wayne Cilento, opened on December 18, 1985 at the St. James Theatre, where it ran for 141 performances.
Alford Halt on the Great Western Railway's Langport and Castle Cary Railway was opened on 21 July 1905, three weeks after the line was opened as far as Charlton Mackrell, to serve the village of Alford.

Alford and door
Redecoration of the interiors was commissioned by Lady Maria Alford and executed in the neoclassical style in 1855-63 by Sir Matthew Digby Wyatt, including a replica of Guido Reni's Aurora ceiling and aedicular door surrounds.
As Alford unlocked the door, four men from the mob entered Parker ’ s cell.

Alford and .
Pleas of " nolo contendere " ( no contest ) and the " Alford plea " are allowed in some circumstances.
Alford guilty plea, an " I'm guilty but I didn't do it " plea and the Alford doctrine ) in United States law is a guilty plea in criminal court, where the defendant does not admit the act and asserts innocence.
Under the Alford plea, the defendant admits that sufficient evidence exists with which the prosecution could likely convince a judge or jury to find the defendant guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
North Carolina v. Alford, Supreme Court of the United States | U. S. Supreme Court ( 1970 )
The Alford guilty plea originated in the United States Supreme Court case of North Carolina v. Alford ( 1970 ).
Henry Alford had been indicted on a charge of first-degree murder in 1963.
Alford was faced with the possibility of capital punishment if convicted by a jury trial.
Had he pled guilty to first-degree murder, Alford would have had the possibility of a life sentence, but avoided the death penalty.
Alford pled guilty to second-degree murder, and said he was doing so to avoid a death sentence if he had been convicted of first-degree murder after attempting to contest that charge.
Alford was sentenced to thirty years in prison, after the trial judge in the case accepted the plea bargain and ruled that the defendant had been adequately apprised by his lawyer.
Alford appealed and requested a new trial, arguing he was forced into a guilty plea because he was afraid of receiving a death sentence.
Following this ruling, Alford petitioned for a writ of habeas corpus in the United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina, which upheld the initial ruling, and subsequently to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit which ruled that Alford's plea was not voluntary, because it was made under fear of the death penalty.
" I just pleaded guilty because they said if I didn't, they would gas me for it ," wrote Alford in one of his appeals.
The Dictionary of Politics: Selected American and Foreign Political and Legal Terms defines the term Alford plea as: " A plea under which a defendant may choose to plead guilty, not because of an admission to the crime, but because the prosecutor has sufficient evidence to place a charge and to obtain conviction in court.
" According to University of Richmond Law Review, " When offering an Alford plea, a defendant asserts his innocence but admits that sufficient evidence exists to convict him of the offense.
" A Guide to Military Criminal Law notes that under the Alford plea, " the defendant concedes that the prosecution has enough evidence to convict, but the defendant still refuses to admit guilt.
According to the book Gender, Crime, and Punishment published by Yale University Press, " Under the Alford doctrine, a defendant does not admit guilt but admits that the state has sufficient evidence to find him or her guilty, should the case go to trial.
" Webster's New World Law Dictionary defines Alford plea as: " A guilty plea entered as part of a plea bargain by a criminal defendant who denies committing the crime or who does not actually admit his guilt.

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