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 known as a plea agreement or plea deal, is a legal arrangement in criminal law where the defendant agrees to plead guilty or no contest...
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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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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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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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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 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 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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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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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 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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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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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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six federal charges, including sex trafficking of a minor, as part of a plea deal. Greenberg was formerly seen together with Republican congressman Matt...
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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 for Captain John Brown" is an essay by Henry David Thoreau, based on a speech he first delivered to an audience at Concord, Massachusetts, on October...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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A Treatise of Pleas of the Crown; or, a system of the principal matters relating to that subject, digested under proper heads (or Pleas of the Crown for...
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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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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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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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The Plea are an Irish, Ballyliffin based, indie rock quartet. They were the first band signed to Apollo Records (an indie/rock offshoot of Belgian dance/techno...
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Eric Rudolph (section Arrest and guilty plea)
Most Wanted Fugitives until he was caught in 2003. In 2005, as part of a plea bargain, Rudolph pleaded guilty to numerous state and federal homicide charges...
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