Sentence examples for Plea for leniency from inspiring English sources

It was a plea for leniency.

Judge Kimba M. Wood of United States District Court in Manhattan rejected Mr. Pomponio's plea for leniency, a lawyer said.

Mr. Martinez's friends and family packed the courtroom, at some points sobbing as he made a final plea for leniency.

In a closing plea for leniency, Mr. Hernández described the trial held in South Florida as "eminently political".

In his plea for leniency, Mr. Ramrattan insisted that he was innocent, saying that he had spent years helping the police solve cases as an informant.

To support the plea for leniency, the memo contained several letters from community leaders and educators that attested to Arenas's goodwill.

Despite the archbishop's pleas for leniency, Farina and his accomplices were tortured and executed.

As the months dragged into years, Mr. Hawkins's pleas for leniency were offset by his erratic behavior.

Last week, Federal Judge David Z. Kenyon ignored his lawyers' pleas for leniency and sentenced Mr. Miller to two concurrent life sentences.

In sentencing one of Mr. Goffer's co-defendants, Jason Goldfarb, to three years in prison, Judge Sullivan rejected pleas for leniency, pointing out that his conduct "wasn't an impulsive decision.

An Afghan tribal leader convicted in an international narcotics trafficking conspiracy was sentenced to life in prison on Thursday by a judge in New York who rejected pleas for leniency based on the man's cooperation with the American authorities.