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 ".

In 2008 she was awarded the Louis P. and Evelyn Smith First Amendment Award by the Ford Hall Forum.

In 2007, she wrote that she did not want to belittle the issue but was sceptical of the claims that specific actions would prevent catastrophe, then in 2008 that her doubts had been “ crystalised ” by Nigel Lawson's book An Appeal to Reason, before stating in 2009 that " There is no climate change, hasn ’ t anybody looked out of their window recently?

In 2008, Bardot was convicted of inciting racial / religious hatred in relation to a letter she wrote, a copy of which she sent to Nicolas Sarkozy when he was Interior Minister of France.

During the 2008 United States presidential election, she branded the Republican Party vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin as " stupid " and a " disgrace to women ".

On 18 November 2008 the band released The BBC Sessions, which features songs from the period of 1996 – 2001 ( including the last recordings featuring Isobel Campbell before she left the band ), along with a second disc featuring a recording of a live performance in Belfast from Christmas 2001.

In January 2008, shortly before plans to retire to Blackpool, Vera's husband Jack found that she had died in her armchair.

In July 2008 she appeared on the Southern California radio show of longtime friend, newscaster George Putnam, reported in the Los Angeles Times.

In 2002 she returned to the concert stage ; she later went on the Backwoods Barbie Tour in 2008 promoting Backwoods Barbie.

* In the 2008 HBO television movie Recount, Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris ( portrayed by Laura Dern ) compares herself to Queen Esther, of whom she says " was willing to sacrifice herself to save the lovely Jewish people.

The children ’ s author Anne Fine presented an overview of the concerns about Blyton's work and responses to them on BBC Radio 4 in November 2008, in which she noted the “ drip, drip, drip of disapproval ” associated with the books.

He has been dating Mellody Hobson, president of Ariel Investments, since 2006 and she has accompanied him to several events including the 79th Academy Awards ceremony in February 2007, an American Film Institute event in October 2007, the 2008 Cannes Film Festival held in May, and the 2010 Golden Globes.

However, Price and Coleman married in 2007 ; and while they divorced in 2008, Price claimed in a court petition that she remained Coleman's common-law wife, sharing bank accounts and presenting themselves publicly as husband and wife, until his death ; an assertion that, if validated by the court, would make her the lawful heir.

In 2008 she became the recipient of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Architecture.

In 2008 it became known that during 2007 she had received two treatments at Ullevål, paid for by Norwegian public expenditures.

Chelsy also accompanied Harry to the wedding of Harry's cousin, Peter Phillips to Autumn Kelly in May 2008, where she was introduced to the Queen for the first time.

In the 2008 U. S. Women's Chess Championship, she lost by one second on time controls in a playoff with IM and WGM Anna Zatonskih.

In January 2008 she competed in the strong Corus Wijk aan Zee tournament, scoring a respectable 6 / 13 and tied 9 – 11 in the 14 player tournament.

" I make more use of my experience now and try to work more efficiently so that my efforts aren't wasted ", she said in 2008.

On April 15, 2008, she announced that in 2010 the foundation will be opening a museum devoted to Jackie in Lower Manhattan.

It was reported by mainstream UK press in late September 2008 that she had been evicted from her home, was on the verge of bankruptcy, and was living in a hotel in west London by the good graces of the hotel management until her financial situation could be resolved.

On February 11, 2011 it was further reported that she had been made bankrupt over her stay at the five-star Jumeirah Carlton Tower hotel in London's upmarket Knightsbridge in 2008.

Dr. Brian Day, who acted as President of the CMA in 2007 / 2008, is the owner of the largest private healthcare hospital in Canada and a proponent of mixed public and private healthcare in Canada.

* 1 May 2008: Directed and acted by Fever theatre at Hemsworth Arts and Community College.

In early 2008, O ' Connell acted in a widely circulated Internet video parody of the leaked Tom Cruise video on Scientology .< ref >

In recent years, Leigh appeared in the 2008 ensemble film Synecdoche, New York and has acted in two films written and directed by her then-partner Noah Baumbach-Margot at the Wedding, co-starring Nicole Kidman, and Greenberg.

In May 2008, the skate park development was stopped by the Supreme Court of Victoria, claiming that the council had acted inappropriately.

At the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympic Games he acted as Deputy Chef de Mission and undertook a review of practices at the games in preparation for London 2012.

Since his breakout role in The Station Agent ( 2003 ), he has acted in Elf ( 2003 ), Underdog ( 2007 ), Find Me Guilty ( 2006 ), Death at a Funeral ( 2007 ) and its remake ( 2010 ), and The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian ( 2008 ).

In October 2008 he was made an Assistant Whip in the Labour government and acted as Assistant Regional Minister with Barbara Follett, the Regional Minister for the East of England.

Pierre Lambert ( June 9, 1920 – January 16, 2008 ) ( real name Pierre Boussel ) was a French Trotskyist leader, who, for many years acted as the central leader of the French Courant Communiste Internationaliste ( CCI ) which founded the Parti des Travailleurs.

A High Court review in 2008 ruled that the SFO had acted unlawfully by dropping the corruption investigation but was later overturned on appeal by the SFO to the House of Lords.

" Mohanlal also acted in the sequels Kurukshetra ( 2008 ) and Kandahar ( 2010 ).

She also acted as the New South Wales Premier in the telemovie Scorched for Channel Nine in 2008.

In the financial crisis of 2007 – 2010, the Nationwide has acted to safeguard the mutual sector, acquiring the ailing Cheshire and Derbyshire building societies in September 2008 and the Dunfermline Building Society on 30 March 2009.

Ace Director Upendra turned into an actor and acted in many Super hit films like A ( 1998 ), Upendra ( 1999 ), Preethse ( 2000 ), H2O ( 2002 ) which was based on the Kaveri River water dispute, Hollywood ( 2002 ), Kutumba ( 2003 ), Rakta Kanneeru ( 2003 ), Gokarna ( 2003 ), Omkara ( 2004 ), Gowramma ( 2005, Auto Shankar ( 2005 ), Aishwarya ( 2006 ), Anatharu ( 2007 ), Buddhivantha ( 2008 ), Super ( 2010 ), and Katari Veera Surasundarangi ( 2012 ).

He acted as engineer on their 2008 release Remember and 2009's I'm Going Away.

Coughlan acted to clean up years of wasteful spending by executives at the state training and employment agency, FÁS, and was considered to have taken a tough line with Director General, Rody Molloy, who was forced to resign in November 2008.

At the time of her death in September 2008, she was among the last to have acted as an adult in silent films ( Barbara Kent and Miriam Seegar are among the handful of others ) to live into the 21st century.

In 2008 he acted the voices for the yellow tribe in Spore, The Garfield ShowPlayed By Pingu, Penguins, Robby

She acted in and as Meera in Meerabai Not Out, a cricket-based feature film produced by PNC and Sony pictures which released in September 2008.

In May 2008, Tylo filed a restraining order against boyfriend Corey Cofield, claiming that he had acted violently towards her and her children ; she asked for the order to be withdrawn in October 2008, telling a judge that Cofield was attending therapy and was much better.

In 2008, Chopra acted in six films.

He acted on local television in Simpatici ( 2001 ), Il-Madonna taċ-Ċoqqa ( 2002 ), Mad-daqqa Niżfnu ( 2004 ), Id-Driegħ t ' Alla ( 2005 ), Santa Monika ( 2006 ), Pupi ( 2007 ) and Il-Kristu tal-Kerrejja ( 2008 ).

Recently Charles was back on stage in the Off Broadway production " Lightning at Our Feet ", inspired by poet Emily Dickinson, under the direction of Obie winner Bob McGrath, with film maker Bill Morrison and composer Michael Gordon, which was part of the Next Wave festival at Brooklyn Academy of Music in December 2008, where she sang and acted, channeling the iconic 19th century poet.