" 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.

As part of a plea bargain, the other charges were dropped.

As part of his plea, Boesky purported to implicate Milken in several illegal transactions, including insider trading, stock manipulation, fraud and stock parking ( buying stocks for the benefit of another ).

As part of his plea, Milken agreed to pay $ 200 million in fines.

A no-contest plea, while not technically a guilty plea, has the same immediate effect as a guilty plea, and is often offered as a part of a plea bargain.

Plea bargaining is a significant part of the criminal justice system in the United States ; the vast majority ( roughly 90 %) of criminal cases in the United States are settled by plea bargain rather than by a jury trial.

Nevertheless, plea bargaining has become an accepted part of the criminal justice system although judges and Crown attorneys are often reluctant to refer to it as such.

Another important decision of Clement XI was in regard to the Chinese Rites controversy: the Jesuit missionaries were forbidden to take part in honors paid to Confucius or the ancestors of the Emperors of China, which Clement XI identified as " idolatrous and barbaric ", and to accommodate Christian language to pagan ideas under plea of conciliating the heathen.

Typically the hearing on the guilty plea is transcribed by a court reporter and the transcript is made a part of the permanent record of the case in order to preserve the conviction's validity from being challenged at some future time.

The agents responsible pled guilty to manslaughter as part of a plea deal and were sentenced to ten years in prison, but secretly released early to France under an agreement between the two countries ' governments.

In May 2002, Mohammed Jabarah agreed to cooperate with investigators as part of a plea bargain.

Faiz al-Amla, a Palestinian dealer from the village of Beit Ula in the Hebron Hills was convicted and sentenced to a six-month jail term as part of a plea bargain.

As part of his plea bargain agreement for his case of espionage for the Soviet Union, Robert Hanssen would be made to undergo a polygraph at any time as part of damage assessment.

The text of the repealing Act has not survived in the records of Parliament, but a contemporary law report ( Year Book 1 Henry VII, Hil., plea 1 ) reproduces part of the text as follows:

This was agreed as part of a plea bargain, which would see Khadr deported to Canada after one year to serve the remaining seven years there.

With the help of attorney Roy Cohn, however, he was able to strike a plea bargain and received a four-year sentence for attempted manslaughter for his part in the hit.

Of the ten Marines, seven accepted other than honorable discharges as part of a plea bargain, but three, including David Cox, refused to accept the plea bargain and went to court.

The second agreement permits the authority to sell a 520-acre tract west of Stage 1 Residential to Philadelphia Builders Eastwick Corp., a firm composed of 10 Philadelphia area builders, which is interested in developing part of the project.

As part of the peace agreement, troops from both armies were to be demilitarized and then integrated.

Serbia refused to cede a part of the territories in Macedonia, which it occupied and promised to give to Bulgaria according to a secret agreement.

There is now general agreement that Joshua was composed as part of a larger work, the Deuteronomistic history, stretching from Deuteronomy to Kings.

An argument that the power to issue shares could only be properly exercised to raise new capital was rejected as too narrow, and it was held that it would be a proper exercise of the director's powers to issue shares to a larger company to ensure the financial stability of the company, or as part of an agreement to exploit mineral rights owned by the company.

Sun Yat-sen was declared as President, but Sun was forced to turn power over to Yuan Shikai, who commanded the New Army and was Prime Minister under the Qing government, as part of the agreement to let the last Qing monarch abdicate ( a decision Sun would later regret ).

Important features of natural language syntax such as agreement and reference are not part of the context-free grammar, but the basic recursive structure of sentences, the way in which clauses nest inside other clauses, and the way in which lists of adjectives and adverbs are swallowed by nouns and verbs, is described exactly.

In 2000, Coca-Cola bought 49 percent of Corporación José R. Lindley S. A., the creator and producer of Inca Kola, securing the worldwide distribution rights to Inca Kola as part of the agreement.

Further soundings made by the US Center for Coastal & Ocean Mapping in 2011 are in agreement with this figure, placing the deepest part of the Challenger Deep at, with a vertical precision of approximately.

No monetary payment was made from the US to the UK as part of this agreement or any subsequent amendment.

The revised Easter computation that had been part of the original 1923 agreement was never permanently implemented in any Orthodox diocese.

As part of an agreement to cease hostilities, the nations agreed to refer the issue to the Permanent Court of Arbitration at the Hague.

This SI second referred to atomic time was later verified by Markowitz ( 1988 ) to be in agreement, within 1 part in 10 < sup > 10 </ sup >, with the second of ephemeris time as determined from lunar observations.

( However, though inconsistent with a merchant's agreement with each credit card company, the merchant may treat a cash withdrawal as part of an ordinary credit card sale.

After the formation of a new coalition government in 2010, it was announced as part of the coalition agreement that a referendum would be held on 5 May 2011 on switching to the alternative vote system.

To avoid allegations that it was still in occupation of any part of the Gaza Strip, Israel also withdrew from the Philadelphi Route, which is a narrow strip adjacent to the Strip's border with Egypt, after Egypt's agreement to secure its side of the border.

In 1528, Salcedo arrested Pedarias and forced him to cede part of his Honduran domain, but Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor rejected the agreement.

In 1938, as part of his preparations for war, Hitler ended the German alliance with China, and entered into an agreement with the more modern Japan.

There is near-universal agreement among farriers that when possible, a barefoot hoof, at least for part of every year, is a healthy option for most horses.

There is still no consensus ; what does seem to be in agreement however is that the bulk of England's contemporary native population was already in place by the beginning of written history in this part of the world.

There is no general agreement on whether to consider more recent extinctions as a distinct event, merely part of the Quaternary extinction event, or just a result of natural evolution on a non-geologic scale of time.

Under the terms of the Anglo-Irish agreement of 6 December 1921, which ended the war ( 1919 – 1921 ), Northern Ireland was given the option of withdrawing from the new state, the Irish Free State, and remaining part of the United Kingdom.

The International Monetary Fund was originally created as part of the Bretton Woods system exchange agreement in 1944.

* 1919 – At the Paris Peace Conference, Emir Faisal of Iraq signs an agreement with Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann on the development of a Jewish homeland in Palestine and an Arab nation in a large part of the Middle East.