Sentence examples for Legal plea from inspiring English sources

In a legal plea published Tuesday in the European Union's Official Journal, Intel is asking a European Union court to overturn the antitrust decision or reduce the "manifestly disproportionate" fine.

Caron reportedly said that he was coerced into putting in his legal plea and tried to get out of it.

The narration here takes on the form of a legal plea, offering a lengthy and rigorous social justification for why our protagonist decided to go into a museum with a can of spraypaint and, copycatting Tony Shafrazi's defacing of Picasso's Guernica, writes "KILL LIES ALL" across a painting, left unnamed.

The narration here takes on the form of a legal plea, offering a lengthy and rigorous social justification for why our protagonist decided to go into a museum with a can of spray paint and, copycatting Tony Shafrazi's defacing of Picasso's Guernica, writes "KILL LIES ALL" across a painting, left unnamed.

In Brooklyn, as would be the case elsewhere in New York State, the link is used for more advanced proceedings like arguments on legal motions, plea bargaining and sessions in which prosecutors turn over evidence to defense lawyers.

They said a new law that was to modernize the Mexican Government's fight against organized crime with innovations like legal wiretapping, plea bargaining for informers and a witness-protection program had scarcely been put into effect.

Although some slaves violently rebelled against their enslavement (see slave rebellions), African Americans and other subordinated groups mainly used nonviolent means protests, legal challenges, pleas and petitions addressed to government officials, as well as sustained and massive civil rights movements to achieve gradual improvements in their status.

Most legal scholars oppose plea bargaining, finding it both inefficient and unjust.4 Nevertheless, most participants in the plea bargaining process, including (perhaps especially) the courts, seem remarkably untroubled by it.

The American legal system encourages plea bargains, whereby accused people accept a much lower sentence than would be imposed if they were found guilty.

If the judge finds the plea legal, prosecutors will have the option of going along with it or proceeding with a trial in an attempt to convict him on some or all of the most serious charges.

Game Theory for the Defense From 'Law's Order,' by David Friedman, of the Santa Clara University School of Law For a real prisoner's dilemma involving a controversial feature of our legal system, consider plea bargaining.