Others hold that an Alford plea is simply one form of a guilty plea, and, as with other guilty pleas, the judge must see there is some factual basis for the plea.

" In the 1999 South Carolina Supreme Court case State v. Gaines, the Court held that Alford guilty pleas were to be held valid in the absence of a specific on-the-record ruling that the pleas were voluntary – provided that the sentencing judge acted appropriately in accordance with the rules for acceptance of a plea made voluntarily by the defendant.

Stephanos Bibas writes in a 2003 analysis for Cornell Law Review that Judge Frank H. Easterbrook and a majority of scholars " praise these pleas as efficient, constitutional means of resolving cases.

Jeremiah alternates efforts to warn the people with pleas to God for mercy until he is ordered to " pray no more for this people.

Breton is not an official language of France, despite pleas from autonomists and others for official recognition and for the language to be guaranteed a place in schools, the media, and other aspects of public life.

This was not the first appeal but some have seen the murder of the legate as a turning point in papal policy — whereas it might be more accurate to see it as a fortuitous event in allowing the Pope to excite popular opinion and to renew his pleas for intervention in the south.

These pleas for independence and referendum augured poorly for the US, Britain and Ethiopia, as a confidential American estimate of Independence Party support amounted to 75 % of Eritrea.

Poe, throughout his attempts to live as a writer, repeatedly had to resort to humiliating pleas for money and other assistance.

The story remarks that when Judah haNasi prayed for relief, the prayers were ignored, just as he had ignored the pleas of the calf.

Hoshanah Rabbah is traditionally taken to be the day of the " delivery " of the final judgment of Yom Kippur, and offers a last opportunity for pleas of repentance before the holiday season closes.

The Foreign Minister's ever more desperate pleas for permission to seek peace with at least some of Germany's enemies – the Soviet Union in particular – certainly played a role in their estrangement.

In 1914 – 1917 many Methodist ministers made strong pleas for world peace.

Further pressure in the early 1850s from Britain for removing their forces prompted pleas for them to remain as the Militia were deemed insufficient for the purpose.

" The largest category of Psalms, though not grouped as such in the text, is that of lament ( expressions of complaint and pleas for help from God ).

In the common law, the peremptory pleas ( pleas in bar ) are pleas that set out special reasons for which a trial cannot go ahead.

Continued troubles in Italy, as well as pleas from figures such as Petrarch and St. Bridget of Sweden, caused Urban to set out for Rome, which he reached on 16 October 1367.

He also pretended at one point that he could not hear the hunters ' pleas for help, instead continuing to film their struggle and putting them in greater danger.

Diplomatic efforts, including pleas by German ambassador Jürgen Chrobog and German Member of Parliament Claudia Roth, and the recommendation of Arizona's clemency board, failed to sway Arizona Governor Jane Dee Hull, who insisted that the executions be carried out.

A significant change in the first scene, and one with major implications for the rest of the play, is that prior to the sacrifice of Alarbus, it is revealed that several years previously, Tamora had one of Titus ' sons in captivity and refused to show him clemency despite Titus ' pleas.

On November 10, hours before Muhammad's scheduled execution, pleas for clemency made by his attorneys were denied by Virginia Governor Tim Kaine.

As was customary, North Carolina governor Mike Easley reviewed pleas for clemency ; prior to the execution he met both with Lyon's defense attorneys and members of Stafford's family.

Despite pleas for clemency by fellow pastors to the Dayro-E-Tasalamat ( an Ombudsman and Muslim cleric-literally, " he who hears the cries of the oppressed "), Hossein was hanged on 3 December 1989 at the insistence of the Ombudsman.

William Frederick Horry owned the George Hotel in the 1860s before murdering his wife Jane at his father's house in Boston Lincolnshire .... despite pleas for clemency he was hanged at Lincoln Castle April 1, 1872 and his body interred with other executed felons in the interior of the Castle's Lucy Tower, where it can still be seen.

According to newspaper reports when he was questioned about these letters on the 27th August 2011, he " became quite incensed " and revealed that he has written " a number " of clemency pleas.

However, the All-India Anti-Terrorist Front Chairman Maninderjeet Singh Bitta has urged the President of India not to accept any clemency pleas on Afzal's behalf.

Twice during the Civil War it was saved from destruction by the opposing armies by the pleas and prayers of a local minister.

Despite pleas from Nelson and Hamilton, King Ferdinand of Naples refused to lend his frigates to the British fleet, fearing French reprisals.

Ignoring his friends ' pleas not to go in, Holt began swimming but soon disappeared from view.

The company brushed aside pleas from four Southern governors and the National Audubon Society that the tract be publicly purchased and set aside as a reserve, and clearcut the forest.

In her bodhisattva vows, Guanyin promises to answer the cries and pleas of all sentient beings and to liberate them from their own karmic woes.

A case would begin with a complaint in which the plaintiff alleged the facts entitling him to relief, then the defendant would file any one of a variety of pleas in opposition, followed by a replication from the plaintiff, a rejoinder from the defendant, a surrejoinder from the plaintiff, a rebutter from the defendant, and a surrebutter from the plaintiff.

The Portuguese had been in the area earlier in early 16th centuries ( in search of the legendary priest-king Prester John ), and although a diplomatic mission from Portugal, led by Rodrigo de Lima, had failed to improve relations between the countries, they responded to the Ethiopian pleas for help and sent a military expedition to their fellow Christians.

In terms of wealth, Trinity's current fortunes belie prior fluctuations ; Nevile's building campaign drove the college into debt from which it only surfaced in the 1640s, and the mastership of Richard Bentley ( notorious for the construction of a hugely expensive staircase in the Master's Lodge, and Bentley's repeated refusals to step down despite pleas from the Fellowship ) adversely affected applications and finances.

Although initially restricted by its constitution to render aid only to nationals from the United Nations ( the Allies ), this was changed late in 1944, in response to pleas from Jewish organizations who were concerned with the fate of surviving Jews of German nationality, to also include " other persons who have been obliged to leave their country or place of origin or former residence or who have been deported therefrom by action of the enemy because of race, religion or activities ' in favor of the United Nations.

* King Childebert I receives pleas from his sister Clotilde, wife of king Amalaric, that she is abused by her husband.

The prosperity of Mediterranean Gaul encouraged Rome to respond to pleas for assistance from the inhabitants of Massilia, who were under attack by a coalition of Ligures and Gauls.

It included information on the situation in England, with messengers from there reporting that Ælfgifu was gaining the support of the leading aristocrats through pleas and bribery, binding them to herself and Harold by oaths of loyalty.

Announcing that the two pieces would be separated by an " interlude " played by tenor saxophonist Paul Gonsalves, Ellington proceeded to lead the band through the two pieces, with Gonsalves ' 28-chorus marathon solo whipping the crowd into a frenzy, leading the Maestro to play way beyond the curfew time despite urgent pleas from Festive organizer George Wein to bring the program to an end.

However, when the Gamesman sends a hypnotic signal that entrances over 300, 000 people in the city ( with the exception of Francis ' girlfriend Louise, Spider-Man and Firestar ), the signal does not affect Francis ' mind, which is distracted from entrancement by Louise and the game ; after Louise walks away after having her pleas being shrugged off by Francis, he ( unbeknownst to any others ) plays the arcade machine so hard that it and other arcade machines ( most of which are emitting the hypnotic waves ) explode.

The US ignored pleas from the Aristide government for an international peacekeeping force as a motley band of armed thugs led by a suspected drug trafficker and fugitive death squad leaders overran more than half the country.

Despite Tuireann's pleas, Lugh denies them the use of one of the items they have retrieved, a magic pigskin which heals all wounds.

However, upon hearing of the surrender of his last army under Auguste Marmont he realizes that all is lost and accepts the abdication pleas of his marshallate.

Although pleas for commutation were made by India's prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru and by Gandhi's two sons on the grounds that a death sentence would dishonour the legacy of a man opposed to all forms of violence, Godse was hanged a week later.

She had earlier written Angel a psalm-like letter, full of love, self-abasement, and pleas for mercy ; now, however, she finally admits to herself that Angel has wronged her and scribbles a hasty note saying that she will do all she can to forget him, since he has treated her so unjustly.

" He was renowned for his generosity, answering all pleas for help from poor Roman families with large cash gifts from his private revenues.

Determined to rectify his boxing career's only blemish, Apollo ignores all pleas by his friends and family to move on to other potential opponents and demands his team do whatever necessary to goad Rocky out of retirement and into a rematch.

By it, the king " at the grievous and clamorous complaints of the great men and commons of the realm of England " enacts " that all the people of the king ’ s ligeance of what condition that they be, which shall draw any out of the realm in plea " or any matter of which the cognizance properly belongs to the king ’ s court shall be allowed two months in which to answer for their contempt of the king ’ s rights in transferring their pleas abroad.

On Trungpa's orders, his Vajra Guard forced entry into the poet's locked and barricaded room ; brought him and his girlfriend, Dana Naone, against their will, to the party ; and eventually stripped them of all their clothes, with onlookers ignoring Naone's pleas for help and for someone to call the police.

As the game comes to an end, and Notre Dame is ahead, Devine sends all the seniors to the field, but refuses to let Rudy play, despite the pleas from Steele and the assistant coaches.

A small dog just out of the prisoners ' reach holds the key to their escape in his teeth ; he seems all but immune to the pleas of the pirates trying to coax him closer.

Fletcher did not appear at his arraignment on June 9 because he was on vacation in Florida ; his attorney entered " not guilty " pleas to all three charges on his behalf.

The King's Bench, being a theoretically movable court, was excluded from hearing common pleas, which included all praecipe actions for the recovery of property or debt, while actions of trespass and replevin were shared between the two benches.

Supported by the International Federation of Journalists ( IFJ ), the journalist also took OLAF to the European Court of Justice where all his pleas were dismissed.

With his attempt at repression turning to ridicule, Richard offered pardons to all those arrested ; however, arrestees demanded to be dealt with by the court, and then refused to enter pleas to demonstrate their rejection of the court's jurisdiction.

Ultimately the Greater Dane shows up and is disgusted by what she sees and recalls all dogs home despite Owen's pleas which anger her more as humans aren't supposed to be able to communicate with dogs.

On 28 June 2005 Capill entered guilty pleas on a further three charges of indecent assault, one of rape, and one of unlawful sexual connection, all committed against girls under the age of 12.

By August 20, 2007, all the defendants charged in Federal court, including Vick, had agreed to guilty pleas under plea bargain agreements.

Marculf had received pleas from the few inhabitants of the island called Gersut, or Agna, now called Jersey, which was all but depopulated due to repeated attacks by Vikings, or Saxons, or Vandals, depending on source.

" With all its faults, my family were not known for turning down pleas that deep from the heart.

The first is the episode " Speck " which actually features only Raymond's voice, calling out that he's still alive, while Zorak talks loudly to mask his nephew's pleas for help ( all of which goes right over Space Ghost's head ).

However, all pleas were unsuccessful and ITV said they would not make any more episodes.

Sheridan knew that it was standard Minbari doctrine to ignore all surrender pleas and destroy all Earth vessels without mercy, regardless of any damage the Earth vessels may have sustained.