Twelve months on from their Hampden win over Hearts, the Paisley side are locked in a tight contest to avoid the relegation play-off place.
It was a case of police entrapment, common in those years, but instead of pleading no contest to avoid a public trial, as homosexuals usually did, Mr. Jennings, at Mr. Hay's insistence, went to trial with a lawyer hired by Mattachine, and swore that yes, he was homosexual, but no, he had not solicited.
Ms. Jackson's lawyer, Bruce Martin, said she maintained her innocence and had pleaded no contest to avoid a trial so her daughter would not be called to testify.
After a girl falsely accused him of raping her at their California high school in 2002, Banks pleaded no contest to avoid a trial in the belief that he would serve little, if any, time.
Even as Mr. Obama moved closer to making history as the first black presidential nominee, he stopped short of declaring victory in the Democratic race, part of a carefully calibrated effort in the remaining weeks of the contest to avoid appearing disrespectful to Mrs. Clinton and alienating her supporters.
That result has left three clubs in the contest to avoid finishing in the play-off place and facing a two-legged tie with a Championship side to stay in the division.
Mr. Simon had come under intense pressure from fellow Republicans in recent days to withdraw from the contest to avoid splintering the Republican vote.
"I don't think I want to give up all these motivations," he says, "that belief that there's the good and there's the bad and that this is a contest to try to get one and avoid the other.
Although Clinton is so far the only major candidate in the Democratic field, aides have been insisting that they are preparing for a competitive primary contest in an effort to avoid the perception from Clinton's 2008 campaign that she expected to easily become the Democratic nominee.
Act like you're trying to win a staring contest and try to avoid blinking for as long as possible.
