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.

The Alford guilty plea originated in the United States Supreme Court case of North Carolina v. Alford ( 1970 ).

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.

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.

" 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.

The Alford guilty plea is " a plea of guilty containing a protestation of innocence ".

Upon receiving an Alford guilty plea from a defendant, the court may immediately pronounce the defendant guilty and impose sentence as if the defendant had otherwise been convicted of the crime.

Because of his mastery of march composition, he is known as " The March King " or the " American March King " due to his British counterpart Kenneth J. Alford also being known as " The March King ".

A Bridgett White was also the second wife of a Robert Wight ( 1578 – 1617 ) of Hareby, Lincolnshire, England whom he married on November 25, 1613 at Alford.

Alford is the northernmost of the five-town Southern Berkshire Regional School District ( a sixth town, Mount Washington, also sends its students to the district's schools ).

Route 71, which carries part of the Knox Trail, also passes through the town, from Alford to the north to Great Barrington to the east.

Fred Banks, who ran it then, also owned Alford Windmill.

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.

Anne's father was soon appointed curate ( deputy vicar ) of Saint Wilfrid's, the local church in Alford, and in 1585 he also became the schoolmaster at the Alford Free Grammar School, one of many such public schools, free to the poor, begun by Queen Elizabeth.

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.

* Composer Kenneth Alford ( also known as Major Fredrick Joseph Ricketts ) wrote his march The Thin Red Line in 1908 ( published in 1925 ) to commemorate the " thin red line ".

These same four tracks also featured live drumming from American drummer Zachary Alford.

It was built in 1830 to plans by millwright Edward Ingeldew ( who also built, among others, Wragby tower mill in 1831, Waltham Windmill in 1837, and the former Pickworth tower mill ) for her first owner and founder Michael Hare of red brick, the outer walls being tarred ( provided with a black bitumen paint in order to successfully keep moisture out ), as a five-sailed windmill ( very similar to Alford Windmill ) with Sutton's single patent sails ( 15 feet tip-width and 12 feet heel-width ) providing longitudinal shutters on both sides of the backs ( 36 feet in length ).

At the end of the 19th to the beginning of the 20th century Alford featured a four-sailed mill ( Wallace's OR Station Mill, now a stump ), a five-sailed windmill ( Hoyles's Windmill, today's Alford Mill ), and a six-sailer ( the now dismantled ( in 1973 ) six-storeyed Myers's Windmill, built in 1827 with six left-handed sails, and also called the Alford Mill ) as the only place in Lincolnshire beside Horncastle.

In 1999 Alford was also inducted into Manchester's Hall of Fame.

Alford also set a record for most wins in the first two seasons for a UNM head coach.

It lies within the Howe of Alford ( also called the Vale of Alford ) which occupies the middle reaches of the River Don.

* Alford is also the birthplace of the person who played the most games for Rangers F. C., Douglas Herbert Gray, who played 948 games for the team

Both Lee and Alford had also previously been in another Los Angeles band, Ratt.

The cult of creation theory also provides the basis for Alford ’ s next big idea: that the sarcophagus in the King ’ s Chamber-commonly supposed to be Khufu ’ s final resting place-actually enshrined iron meteorites.

He also appeared in the off-Broadway musical Thoughts ( 1973 ), written by Godspell castmate Lamar Alford, and the Broadway musical The Magic Show ( 1974 ), in which he was Doug Henning's standby and also played the role during Henning's vacations.

In September 2001, Bradley Alford, Chairman and CEO of Nestlé USA, signed the Harkin-Engel Protocol ( commonly called the Cocoa Protocol ), an international agreement aimed at ending child labour in the production of cocoa.

Out towards Alford near Strubby was the former RAF Strubby, now called Strubby Airfield.

In the 2010 season during a post-game handshake line, Alford had a confrontation with a BYU forward player in which Alford called him an " extremely vulgar " name, according to the Wall Street Journal.

It was planned to build a town called Buccleuch in his honour near Alford Forest, but this did not eventuate.

Alford takes as his starting point the golden rule that the pharaoh had to be buried in the earth, i. e. at ground level or below, and this leads him to conclude that Khufu was interred in an ingeniously concealed cave whose entrance is today sealed up in the so-called Well Shaft adjacent to a known cave called the Grotto.

Alford appeared in three productions with Birmingham's Town and Gown Civic Theatre, whose director called up Alford's mother to see if her son was interested in auditioning for the part of Jem in To Kill a Mockingbird.

* Mimi Alford, Alleged mistress of John F. Kennedy

In contrast, there were 18 players from the New York Yankees of the All-America Football Conference ( Bruce Alford, George Brown, Brad Ecklund, Don Garza, Sherman Howard, Duke Iverson, Harvey Johnson, Bob Kennedy, Lou Kusseow, Pete Layden, Paul Mitchell, Barney Poole, Martin Ruby, Jack Russell, Ed Sharkey, Joe Signaigo, John Wozniak and Buddy Young ).

In the book Reel Power: Hollywood Cinema and American Supremacy, Matthew Alford criticises the film for side-lining " the real-world Kennedy administration's preoccupation with launching secret attacks, including an attempted invasion, against Cuba, which persisted into the crisis and beyond ".