Synonym: appeal, asking, defense, excuse, petition, request. Similar words: plead, apple, people, sample, temple, couple, purple, complex. Meaning: [plɪː] 
n. 1. a humble request for help from someone in authority 2. (law) a defendant's answer by a factual matter (as distinguished from a demurrer) 3. an answer indicating why a suit should be dismissed.
n. 1. a humble request for help from someone in authority 2. (law) a defendant's answer by a factual matter (as distinguished from a demurrer) 3. an answer indicating why a suit should be dismissed. 
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121. But as the trial opened, she changed her plea and admitted shooting Staudinger last December, at his Manhattan apartment.
122. The low proportion with an acquittal outcome probably reflects that the vast majority of these cases involve a guilty plea.
123. As part of her plea agreement, she agreed to cooperate with federal officials and received two years' probation.
124. But they say methods such as plea bargaining help to stop the courts becoming congested.
125. So may I enter a plea for simplicity, homeliness and humour, in the teaching of chemistry?
126. Thousands of people across the country have signed the plea which has the full backing of the Opposition.
127. But she did not hear his plea because the vertebrae in her neck had already snapped.
128. If one trespasses beyond the limits, he quietly corrects the fault in a plea, never a paroxysm.
129. A source close to the defense team said the no contest plea was a key element in plea bargain negotiations.
130. Mixed in with the plea for self-empowering was this justification by appeal to natural justice.
131. Many of them reiterate the plea for a high profile personality to present a powerful voice on behalf of the Institute and its members.
132. Less than a year after the shooting, Ray entered a plea of guilty.
133. And Burr has issued a personal plea to Millwall fans in the match programme.
134. That's the plea from those who have suffered as a result of having to come to terms with criminal behaviour.
135. Plea fails: An anniversary plea by a husband for his wife to return home has failed.
136. On behalf of Mr. Sabich, we would ask the court to enter a plea of not guilty.
137. The harassment charge was reduced from extortion, a felony, to the misdemeanor of harassment in exchange for the plea.
138. In part two: Time to act ... the Greens plea to save our polluted planet from destruction.
139. Highway 101 near Asti July 11, but entered a plea of no contest to assaulting the peace officer during the escape.
140. Judge Paul Mahoney waived her public appearance at the arraignment, where Mitchell entered a plea on her behalf of not guilty.
141. Most criminal cases are therefore settled without trial by the process of plea bargaining between the prosecutor and the defense attorney.
142. A second man, Tony Gallagher, also entered a plea of not guilty to causing death by reckless driving.
143. I am compelled to add my personal plea to the current campaign for all young adults to receive the Salk vaccine.
144. Arthur changed his plea half-way through his trial earlier and admitted the offence.
145. Benitez, disgusted, gestured toward home plate umpire Jim Joyce, then turned toward McCoy,(www.Sentencedict.com) who ignored his plea.
146. Only the brushwork, a kind of ironical plea for art, does that.
147. Haynes has been offered a plea deal but prosecutor Lynda Passmore refused to give details of the proposed agreement.
148. Race plea: Milk Race winner Chris Lillywhite today made a plea for the race's future.
149. Within this context, many observers were not surprised that the prosecuting authorities reached an unusual plea bargain arrangement with Kanemaru.
150. But if the plea can be supported by a finding of guilt alone, a defendant might escape punishment altogether.