Judge David Groner of Wayne County Circuit Court rejected a lengthy, emotional plea for leniency from Mr. Kilpatrick, and he criticized the former mayor for lying, trying to portray himself as a victim and ultimately failing the residents of Detroit.
In lengthy plea statements, Waller and the other defendants provided a miniature history of the past twelve years in education policy, describing how No Child Left Behind, in conjunction with the district's targets, created an atmosphere in which cheating came to seem like a reasonable option.
Accordingly, there was no lengthy plea for donations, no extended slow-mo video production, not even a political rant.
Judge Herbert J. Adlerberg of State Supreme Court in Manhattan ruled after a lengthy and sometimes emotional plea by a defense lawyer, Mel A. Sachs, to set bail for Kenneth Kimes at $20,000.
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.
From the moment prosecutors set the charge, usually a few hours to a few days after arrest, these kids are thrown into a process devoid of any substantive examination of their lives or the circumstances that brought them to the justice system, a process that typically ends with a perfunctory guilty plea and a lengthy prison sentence.
Benn's speech came at the end of a lengthy debate that featured heartfelt pleas from MPs for and against extending airstrikes to Syria.
The janitor, Clarence Williams, 50, was charged with driving while intoxicated, and it was soon discovered that he had a lengthy criminal record, including a guilty plea to attempted rape, and had served five years in state prison.
