Meanwhile, throughout the years, Roman has been working in private on building a massive civil-rights case, a class-action lawsuit to challenge the plea-bargain system by which defendants, he argues, are effectively denied their right to a fair trial.
In a six-year legal battle, which is still ongoing, lawyers for some of those victims are challenging the plea agreement, which they say was negotiated without their knowledge and therefore violated their rights as victims.
On Wednesday, however, Mr. Martin and another lawyer, Thomas M. Kelly, challenged the plea the senator signed because they said it did not state facts that constituted a crime and that it did not bear the signature of a judge as having accepted it.
Based on our observations, we challenge the ES concept and ES typology, and plea for an integrated ES assessment framework incorporating social, economic and biophysical perspectives.
Mr. Dalton cannot challenge the constitutionality of the law unless he petitions the court to let him change his plea.
Mr. Marques, who holds both Irish and American citizenship, has not made a plea in court, but his lawyers have indicated that they plan to challenge the extradition.
But there was also an edgy challenge in the plea.
A Florence-based prosecutor lodged a formal challenge to the plea bargain deals, and Italy's highest criminal court will have to rule on it at a later date.
Mr. Lerner's client entered a conditional guilty plea while challenging the use of the thermal imager.
In an effort to overturn his client's plea-bargained murder conviction, Mr. Steward challenged the search warrant for the wiretap.
