" The Court allowed the guilty plea only with a simultaneous protestation of innocence as there was enough evidence to show that the prosecution had a strong case for a conviction, and the defendant was entering such a plea to avoid this possible sentencing.

Durán Ballén's vice president, Alberto Dahik, was the architect of the administration's economic policies, but in 1995, Dahik fled the country to avoid prosecution on corruption charges following a heated political battle with the opposition.

For users in such places, the darknet option may be a requirement in order to avoid prosecution by such a government.

Even so, to avoid becoming a private citizen and thus be open to prosecution for his debts, Caesar left for his province before his praetorship had ended.

When Richard Nixon tried to use executive privilege as a reason for not turning over subpoenaed evidence to Congress during the Watergate scandal, the Supreme Court ruled in United States v. Nixon,, that executive privilege did not apply in cases where a president was attempting to avoid criminal prosecution.

Clemens ' attorney Rusty Hardin denied the claims, calling McNamee " a troubled and unreliable witness " who has changed his story five times in an attempt to avoid criminal prosecution.

Honecker then stayed in a Soviet military hospital near Berlin before later fleeing Germany with Margot Honecker to Moscow, to avoid prosecution over charges of Cold War crimes.

However, on December 1, 2009 a psychiatric nurse who observed Brian David Mitchell stated she believes Mitchell has faked psychiatric symptoms and behaviors to avoid prosecution and remain at a state hospital.

The resident policeman, who at that time lived in the police house adjacent to Somerleyton CP School, could be relied upon to make his approach known so that drinkers could have their pints hidden under the bar in time to avoid prosecution!

Beginning with the capture of an agent named Owens, codenamed Snow, MI5 began to offer enemy agents the chance to avoid prosecution ( and thus the possibility of the death penalty ) if they would work as British double-agents.

It was then reported that Mr. Panitz, having been issued a first-degree murder warrant for the death, was trying to flee to Canada to avoid prosecution.

Individuals who are ( 1 ) fleeing to avoid prosecution or incarceration for a felony or ( 2 ) violating probation or parole are statutorily prohibited from receiving SSI or Title II Social Security benefits.

To avoid detection or prosecution drivers may:

However, in 1937, Genovese was indicted for a 1934 murder and fled to Italy to avoid prosecution.

The first English translation by Henry Vizetelly was published in 1886 and extensively revised ( to meet Victorian standards of propriety and avoid prosecution for issuing an indecent publication ) by Ernest Vizetelly in 1898, issued under the title The Fortune of the Rougons by Chatto and Windus.

" A recent court decision allowed a medical cannabis to avoid legal prosecution for possession of a small number of cannabis plants ; however, the state is appealing the decision.

On 28 October 1985, Osho and a small number of sannyasins accompanying him were arrested aboard a rented Learjet at a North Carolina airstrip ; according to federal authorities the group was en route to Bermuda to avoid prosecution.

Taylor moved into the Gardo House alone with his sister Agnes to avoid prosecution and to avoid showing preference to any one of his families.

At war's end, he came under French protection, and managed to slip away to Cairo to avoid eventual prosecution.

In 1916, they invited conscientious objectors, including Clive Bell and other " Bloomsberries ", to come and work on the home farm for the duration of World War I, to avoid prosecution.

ABC did not retract the story ( the WABC TV producer insisted that Skaggs had said it was a hoax to avoid prosecution ), possibly because the piece had been nominated for an Emmy Award.

Dubbed " The Oddfather " and " The Enigma in the Bathrobe " by the press, Gigante often wandered the streets of Greenwich Village in his bathrobe and slippers, mumbling incoherently to himself, in what Gigante later admitted was an elaborate act to avoid prosecution.

The RSPCA fears that breeders are renaming pit bull terriers as Staffordshire bull terriers to avoid prosecution.

Berman's reading of Toland and Charles Blount attempts to show that Toland deliberately obscured his real atheism so as to avoid prosecution whilst attempting to subliminally influence unknowing readers, specifically by creating contradictions in his work which can only be resolved by reducing Toland's God to a pantheistic one, and realising that such a non-providential God is, for Blount, Toland and Colins, "... no God, or as good as no God ... In short, the God of theism is blictri for Toland ; only the determined material God of pantheism exists, and he ( or it ) is really no God.

When murmur is included under the term aspiration, as is common in Indo-Aryan linguistics, " voiceless aspiration " is called just that to avoid ambiguity.

The Brazilian foreign policy under the Lula da Silva administration had been focused on the following directives: to contribute toward the search for greater equilibrium and attenuate unilateralism ; to strengthen bilateral and multilateral relations in order to increase the country's weight in political and economic negotiations on an international level ; to deepen relations so as to benefit from greater economical, financial, technological and cultural interchange ; to avoid agreements that could jeopardize development in the long term.

These are the issue of Royal Prerogative where the reigning monarch may continue to exercise power under certain very limited circumstances, Sovereign Immunity where they are considered to have done no wrong under the law, and may avoid both taxation and planning permission for example, and considerable ceremonial power where the executive, judiciary, police and armed forces owe allegiance to the Crown.

To avoid triggering unwanted notes, most keyboard matrix circuits have diodes soldered with the switch under each key of the musical keyboard.

Actors Richard DeManincor ( Scott ) and Theresa Tilly ( Shelly ) both went under different " stage names " during the shoot, since they were members of the Screen Actors Guild and wanted to avoid being penalized for participating in a non-union production.

In 2003, Morris won the Best Documentary Oscar at the Academy Awards, for his film The Fog of War, about the career of Robert S. McNamara, who was famous for having been the Secretary of Defense who had led the nation into the Vietnam War under Presidents John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, and who was also crucially involved in having helped President Kennedy avoid a Third World War over the issue of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba.

In Tantric yoga the same emphasis is placed on the retention and absorption of vital liquids and Sanskrit texts describe how semen must not be emitted if the yogi is to avoid falling under the law of time and death.

According to the WHO, some practices regarded as legal in countries that have outlawed FGM do fall under the category of Type IV ( see below ), but the organization decided to maintain a broad definition to avoid loopholes that could allow FGM to continue.

He wished to publish under a different name in order to avoid any embarrassment to his family over his time as a " tramp ".

" The problem, according to Eric Berne, is that because the superego is " a jealous master whose punishments are difficult to avoid ", one may ( in a return of the repressed ) " begin to feel guilty many years afterwards and perhaps break down ... under the long-continued reproaches of the Superego.

Returning, his friend Bobby Byrd asked Brown to join his R & B group, the Avons, who had went under the previous name, the Gospel Starlighters, to avoid controversy with church leaders.

* 1877 – American Indian Wars: Sitting Bull leads his band of Lakota into Canada to avoid harassment by the United States Army under Colonel Nelson Miles.

Afraid that prosecutors might focus on the incitement charge, and that she might be sent to prison without an opportunity to argue for birth control in court, she fled to England under the alias " Bertha Watson " to avoid arrest.

Fielding eventually ran his own puppet theater under the pseudonym Madame de la Nash to avoid the censorship concomitant with the Theater Licensing Act of 1737.

The cardinals being under some haste and great pressure to avoid the return of the Papal seat to Avignon, Prignano was unanimously chosen Pope on 8 April 1378 as acceptable to the disunited majority of French cardinals, taking the name Urban VI.

This rule is often used strategically in order to escape from a submission hold, and a wrestler can break the plane of the ropes by placing his foot or other body part on ( or under ) the ropes to avoid losing by pinfall.

This determines the minimum aerodynamic strength of the vehicle, as the rocket must avoid buckling under these forces.

They will see that Popery is now, what it has ever been, a system of the darkest political intrigue and despotism, cloaking itself to avoid attack under the sacred name of religion.

# Sailing vessels must give way to vessels engaged in fishing, those not under command, those restricted in their ability to manoeuvre and should avoid impeding the safe passage of a vessel constrained by her draft.

It is conjectured that this kicking style was developed in this way to allow the fighter to use a hand to hold onto something for balance on a rocking ship's deck, and that the kicks and slaps were used on land to avoid the legal penalties for using a closed fist, which was considered a deadly weapon under the law.

Various authors have compiled lists of simple machines and machine elements, sometimes lumping them together under a single term such as " simple machines ", " basic machines ", " compound machines ", or " machine elements "; the use of the term " simple machines " in this broader sense is a departure from the neoclassical sense of the six essential simple machines, which is why many authors prefer to avoid its use, preferring the other terms ( such as " machine element ").

Schools and their teachers have always been under pressure — for instance, pressure to cover the curriculum, to perform well in comparison to other schools, and to avoid the stigma of being " soft " or " spoiling " toward students.

The meaning of " compelled testimony " under the Fifth Amendment — i. e., the conditions under which a defendant is allowed to " plead the Fifth " to avoid self-incrimination — is thus often interpreted via reference to the inquisitorial methods of the Star Chamber.