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.
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211. And there right of cancellation given of right to plea of unease traditionally.
212. This cumbersome, artificial procedure is avoided by using the exception rule in guilty or nolo contendere plea cases where it is applicable.
213. In a recent interview with Newsweek, Mr Rajaratnam said that FBI agents offered him a plea bargain—just five years' jail-time in exchange for wearing a wire and taping his conversations with Mr Gupta.
214. Her plea was that she did not see the signal.
215. Onyango has won the right to re-argue her case, and is understood to be intending to present new evidence in support of a plea for asylum in the US.
216. Former Israeli president Moshe Katsav is to be charged with rape nearly two years after he resigned as part of a plea bargain.
217. The former astronaut accused to trying to assault and kidnap romantic rival plans to enter a temporary insanity plea.
218. He ended the letter with a Masonic plea for help: "O my Lord, my God, is there no home for a widow's son?"
219. The case caused a storm of protest, and women's groups have challenged the plea bargain in court.
220. The murderer of Martin copped a plea of a life sentence instead of the death penalty.
221. The former astronaut accused of trying to assault and kidnap a romantic rival plans to enter a temporary insanity plea.
222. That might sound like an irritatingly abstract or pious plea.
223. When three leading monks from Nalanda reached his hide-out , he refused to accept their plea to return to his old university.
224. This ritual of gracious acceptance of defeat with a plea for unity and cooperation is well-established in the United States, with its long tradition of competitive electioneering.
225. Recently, we prosecuted and received a guilty plea from a detainee – al-Marri – in federal court after years of legal confusion.
226. In the academic, there are different opinions to the plea bargaining system.
227. There was criticism of his conduct from MPs and women's rights campaigners when the plea bargain was reached and he appeared ready to admit sexual harassment charges.
228. But Mr Hicks, who made a plea bargain and admitted helping al-Qaeda, will serve only nine months and in his native Australia.
229. So they enter into a plea bargain with the prosecutor — they agree to plead guilty to a lesser offense in exchange for a reduced sentence.
230. The court took the view that the defendant's plea was equivocal.
231. In order to definite the system clearly, the third part compare it with some similar legal system, such as plea bargain.
232. The system of the unpeaceful plea is a traditional system of Civil Law .
233. Her plea was offered contingent upon Phillip Garrido pleading guilty and waiving his right to appeal,(www.Sentencedict.com) prosecutors said.
234. A plea from the heart- A number of well meaning parents took babies.
235. His plea deal was announced after special Judge Jon Kerry Blackwood consulted with defense and prosecution attorneys, the two surviving administrators and the widow of the man who died.
236. However, the arbitral tribunal may proceed with the arbitration and rule on such a plea in its final award.
237. Once an agreement is reached, the judge may make the decision based on the results of the plea bargain and the agreed-upon facts.
238. I am here today to accept responsibility for my crimes by pleading guilty and, with this plea allocution, explain the means by which I carried out and concealed my fraud.
239. We shall have to accept Comte's plea for a unified social science.
240. Third, discusses the excuses which may be as a plea in the action of the infringement of trademark right, such as fair use, prior right, forfeiter of trademark right .