Look up plea, plead, pleaded, pled, guilty, or not guilty in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In law, a plea is a defendant's response to a criminal charge...
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A plea bargain (also plea agreement or plea deal) is an agreement in criminal law proceedings, whereby the prosecutor provides a concession to the defendant...
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States law, an Alford plea, also called a Kennedy plea in West Virginia, an Alford guilty plea, and the Alford doctrine, is a guilty plea in criminal court...
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Nolo contendere (redirect from Plea of nolo contendere)
type of legal plea used in some jurisdictions in the United States. It is also referred to as a plea of no contest or no defense. It is a plea where the defendant...
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Alassane Alexandre Pléa (born 10 March 1993) is a French professional footballer who plays as a forward, left winger or attacking midfielder for Bundesliga...
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peremptory pleas (pleas in bar) are defensive pleas that set out special reasons for which a trial cannot proceed; they serve to bar the case entirely. Pleas in...
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A plea is an answer to a claim in a criminal court case. Plea may also refer to: Plea (bug), a genus of bugs in the family Pleidae The Plea (film), a...
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A Plea for Purging is a Christian metalcore band based out of Nashville, Tennessee. During their time active, they released four full-length albums on...
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A plea colloquy, in United States criminal procedure, is a conversation between a judge and a criminal defendant who has been sworn under oath, which must...
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Plea for Peace may refer to: Plea for Peace Foundation, a non-profit organization based in California Plea for Peace (EP), an EP by Operation Ivy This...
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Arraignment (section Guilty and not-guilty pleas)
jurisdictions, the accused is expected to enter a plea; in other jurisdictions, no plea is required. Acceptable pleas vary among jurisdictions, but they generally...
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Plea for Peace is the final EP by the American punk rock band Operation Ivy. It was released in February 1992, three years after they disbanded, through...
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Plea rolls are parchment rolls recording details of legal suits or actions in a court of law in England. Courts began recording their proceedings in plea...
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Insanity defense (redirect from Plea of temporary insanity)
fall in unfitness to plead and insanity findings. A plea of diminished capacity is different from a plea of insanity in that "reason of insanity" is a full...
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A plea in equity, in the common law, is a statement of facts raised by a defendant which operates as a defense to an equitable claim raised by the plaintiff...
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Abatement in pleading (redirect from Plea in abatement)
An abatement in pleading, or plea in abatement, was a defence in common law to legal proceedings that did not contest the principle of the plaintiff's...
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Karla Homolka (section Plea bargain controversy)
and 1992. Homolka attracted worldwide media attention when a controversial plea bargain with Ontario prosecutors meant she was only convicted of manslaughter...
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entered a guilty plea to a lesser charge of disorderly conduct. As a result of the controversy surrounding his arrest and guilty plea, and pressure from...
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The Plea (Georgian: ვედრება translit. Vedreba, Russian: Мольба, romanized: Molba) is a 1967 Soviet art drama film directed by Tengiz Abuladze and co-written...
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Mike Park (redirect from Plea for Peace Foundation)
Less Than Jake, Alkaline Trio, and The Lawrence Arms. In 1999 he formed the Plea for Peace Foundation an organization whose aim is "to promote the ideas of...
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Freedom. A Plea (German: Freiheit. Ein Plädoyer) is a book by Joachim Gauck, the President of Germany, released on 20 February 2012, the day after his...
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of Common Pleas Ohio Courts of Common Pleas Pennsylvania Courts of Common Pleas South Carolina Court of Common Pleas Court of Common Pleas at Westminster...
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part of a plea agreement; she admitted to orchestrating the hoax. Thirty-three other counts of mail fraud were dropped as part of the plea agreement....
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Plea bargaining in the United States is very common; the vast majority of criminal cases in the United States are settled by plea bargain rather than...
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"A Plea for Captain John Brown" is an essay by Henry David Thoreau. It is based on a speech Thoreau first delivered to an audience at Concord, Massachusetts...
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Pleah sach ko (redirect from Plea sach ko)
Pleah sach ko Pleah sach ko with steamed rice Alternative names plea sach ko, pleah saiko, plear sach koh Type Ceviche Place of origin Cambodia Created...
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Derek Chauvin (section Failed plea bargain)
motion in federal court in mid-November 2023 attempting to vacate his guilty plea. After the conclusion of the criminal and civil rights cases, Chauvin was...
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murders committed between the early 1980s and late 1990s. As part of his plea bargain, another conviction was added, bringing the total number of convictions...
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Watts family murders (section Plea deal and sentencing)
Watts pleaded guilty to multiple counts of first-degree murder as part of a plea deal when the death penalty (which was later abolished in Colorado in 2020)...
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Chief Pleas or Court of Chief Pleas may refer to: Chief Pleas (Sark), legislative assembly of Sark, Channel Islands Court of Chief Pleas (Guernsey), ancient...
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