The most important of these found him in agreement with Hough's plea for reform.

When the verdict for the trial comes in, Amanda's plea to the jury to " judge this case as you would if the sexes were reversed " proves successful, and Doris is found not guilty.

When it became clear that the women's remains would never be found without Robinson's cooperation, a compromise of sorts was reached: In a carefully scripted plea in October, 2003, Robinson acknowledged only that Koster had enough evidence to convict him of capital murder for the deaths of Godfrey, Clampitt, Bonner, and the Faiths.

On his return to Saint-Germain, on 30 June, Rundstedt found an urgent plea from Schweppenburg, who was commanding the armoured forced at Caen, to be allowed to withdraw his units out of range of Allied naval gunfire, which was decimating his forces.

Another three defendants whose cases had been tied in with Miranda ' san armed robber, a stick-up-man, and a bank robbereither made plea bargains to lesser charges or were found guilty again despite the exclusion of their confessions.

The previous day, Bellingham had been tried, and, refusing to enter a plea of insanity, was found guilty.

In January 1995, Curry was acquitted on all charges, Chambers was found guilty and Longstreet took a plea deal.

On November 23, 2005, The Associated Press reported that a weekend hiker found the skull of one of the 48 women Ridgway admitted murdering in his 2003 plea bargain with King County prosecutors.

Lionel is found dead following Louis ' rejecting his drunken plea for help to avoid bankruptcy.

It is suggested by Rob Briggs that an elevated site at the junction of different hundreds and parishes was probably a site of general assembly and he identifies it with the place name Seven Ditches, found in the charter of King Caedwalla of Wessex confirming Farnham to the Bishop of Winchester ( following the original grant by King Edward the Elder in 909 AD ) ( Latin “ vii dican ”); and also in a feoffment defining the Shoelands estate in about 1210 ( Latin “ Seuedic ”); and also in the plea rolls of the 1263 Surrey Eyre, noting the hanging of one Robert de la Felde of Send at ( Latin ) “ Seinedik ”, translated Sendike or Seven Ditches.

The court found that this second element was satisfied because Benitez ' language barrier had prevented him from gaining a full understanding of his rights from only the written plea agreement and other comments made by the court.

Shirley's defence, which he conducted in person with great ability, was a plea of insanity, and it was supported by considerable evidence, but he was found guilty.

While attending high school, he was inspired by Clarence Streit's plea for a world government to found the Student Federalists.

However, as was provided in the plea bargain, Homolka had already disclosed sufficient information to the police and the Crown found no grounds to break the agreement and reopen the case.

Although the contents of the videotapes would likely have led to a conviction of murder for Homolka, an inquiry into the conduct of the prosecutors who had made the plea bargain found their behaviour " professional and responsible " and the " resolution agreement " that they had established with Homolka " unassailable " under the Criminal Code of Canada.

* The initials VSR ( Viva San Rocco or Long Live St. Rocco ), found above doorways in Europe: a plea to ward off the plague.

Littleton remarked that the count or plea of " per interventionem ( sur trover ) was a new found halliday.

Although all charges were previously dismissed in March, 1997 by a Rhode Island Superior Court Judge who also found the Attorney General's office guilty of 10 findings of " egregious prosecutorial misconduct " ( all 10 upheld by the Rhode Island Supreme Court ), in December 1998, he pleaded guilty to state charges of bribery, extortion and racketeering, and was sentenced to a year in prison after he admitted ( in a plea bargain ) accepting $ 250, 000 in exchange for state contracts during his term as Governor.

Sullivan entered a guilty plea and was sentenced to five years in prison as part of a plea agreement in which Sullivan testified against former WorldCom CEO Bernard Ebbers, who received a 25-year sentence ( the maximum sentence that Sullivan could have received if he had not accepted the plea agreement and was found guilty ).

A version of the events closer to the truth can be found in Vanity of Duluoz, where Carr was arrested and eventually accepted a plea of manslaughter and a prison sentence ; and Kerouac was arrested and held briefly as an accessory after the fact.

Parker said he did not really believe Struthers was hoarding food from the charity, but he came up with the concept because he found it funny that such an obese woman would make a public plea for food for others.

Littleton called the plea " per inventionem, sur trover, a new found halliday.

In her early seventies at the time, she did not let eight inches of snow stop her from making it to a speech in support of her cause despite the plea of a health official who was concerned for her safe passage to the speech.

The Biblical sources mention that Abijah addressed the armies of Israel, urging them to submit and to let the Kingdom of Israel be whole again, but his plea fell on deaf ears.

However, his plea fell on deaf ears.

Rosemary, still blinded by her anger, tells Mrs. Owens that Hal gave Millie the whiskey, while Howard's plea that he brought the whiskey seems to fall on deaf ears.

A typical Ferengi prayer begins with this phrase: " Blessed Exchequer, whose greed is eternal, allow this bribe to open your ears and hear this plea from your most humble debtor.

A plea from a Jewish school friend on behalf of her daughter seems to have also fallen on deaf ears.

This plea, however, fell on deaf ears.

This form of guilty plea has been frequently used in local and state courts in the United States, though it consists of a small percentage of all plea bargains in the U. S. The form of plea is not allowed in courts of the United States military.

* List of U. S. states by Alford plea usage

The insanity plea is used in the U. S Criminal Justice System in less than 1 % of all criminal cases.

Michael Chertoff, then-head of the criminal division of the U. S. Department of Justice, then directed the prosecutors to offer Lindh a plea bargain, to which, Lindh would plead guilty to two charges: — supplying services to the Taliban (,,, and ) and carrying an explosive during the commission of a felony ().

In criminal trials in certain U. S. jurisdictions, it is a plea where the defendant neither admits nor disputes a charge, serving as an alternative to a pleading of guilty or not guilty.

In the U. S. federal system, the court must also satisfy itself that there is a factual basis for the guilty plea.

Bo and Luke had previously been sentenced to probation for illegal transportation of moonshine ; their Uncle Jesse made a plea deal with the U. S. Government to stop brewing moonshine in exchange.

In practice most criminal actions in the U. S. are resolved by plea bargain, and only about 2 % of civil cases go to trial, with only about half of those trials being conducted before juries.

The confession of the accused is a medieval principle of jurisprudence " in the trial that was solely based on confessions, he finished his last plea with " the monstrousness of my crime is immeasurable especially in the new stage of struggle of the U. S. S. R. May this trial be the last severe lesson, and may the great might of the U. S. S. R become clear to all.

* December 12 U. S. District Court Judge for the Southern District of Texas Melinda Harmon approves change of plea by David Duncan after unanimous overturn by U. S Supreme Court of Arthur Andersen LLP v. United States.

In a letter to the U. S. military commission at Guantanamo after the plea of guilty had been heard but before the announcement of sentence, Radhika Coomaraswamy, the UN secretary-general's special representative for children and armed conflict, wrote that Khadr represents the " classic child soldier narrative: recruited by unscrupulous groups to undertake actions at the bidding of adults to fight battles they barely understand ", and suggested that Khadr to be released into a rehabilitation program.

:: Example: The Court indirectly recognized as much when it stated in McMann v. Richardson, supra, 397 U. S., at 770, 771, 90 S. Ct., at 1448, 1449, that a guilty plea cannot be attacked as based on inadequate legal advice unless counsel was not “ a reasonably competent attorney ” and the advice was not “ within the range of competence demanded of attorneys in criminal cases .” See also Cuyler v. Sullivan, supra, 446 U. S., at 344, 100 S. Ct., at 1716.

The Lord Advocate rejected Dalyell's plea, saying that the Home Office and the English courts have the jurisdiction over the demand of the U. S. government's extradition demand regarding Coleman, and that the Crown Office and the Scottish Office had no authority over the case.

The U. S. Congress in May, 1947, responding to Truman's plea, granted Greece $ 400 million in military and economic aid.

The confession of the accused is a medieval principle of jurisprudence " in a trial that was solely based on confessions, he finished his last plea with the words: " the monstrousness of my crime is immeasurable especially in the new stage of struggle of the U. S. S. R. May this trial be the last severe lesson, and may the great might of the U. S. S. R become clear to all.

The same year, " People Got to Be Free ", a horn-punctuated plea for racial tolerance ( the band was known for refusing to tour on segregated bills ) in the wake of the assassinations that year of Senator Robert F. Kennedy and Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., became their third and final U. S. # 1 single, and their sixth and final Canadian # 1.

On February 28, 2006, Al-Arian signed a plea agreement in which he agreed to plead guilty to one count of conspiracy to contribute services to or for the benefit of the PIJ, a Specially Designated Terrorist organization, in violation of 18 U. S. C.

At the plea agreement hearing, U. S. Magistrate Thomas B. McCoun said, " if you're satisfied you're guilty or you believe it's in your best interest to plead guilty ... let me know that.

Others have pointed to the fact that although Sheela had bugged Osho's living quarters and made her tapes available to the U. S. authorities as part of her own plea bargain, no evidence has ever come to light that Osho had any part in her crimes.