Sentence examples for could not plea from inspiring English sources

Yet, Rita could not plea bargain because the only information she knew of concerned her boyfriend's illegal enterprises and the prosecution already had that knowledge.

Judge Brinkema, who had refused to accept the initial guilty plea last week, said today that she could not accept the plea on the terms now outlined by Mr. Moussaoui.

Therefore, I will not plea-bargain.

Tempers flared when Ms. Alyokhina insisted several times that she did not understand the "ideological" elements to the charges against her and could not submit a plea.

Judge Jones advised Abdelrahman that she could not accept a plea if he did not think he was guilty, and suggested that perhaps the case should proceed to trial.

Shortly after a judge denied his request to withdraw the August plea admitting to disorderly conduct, Mr. Craig said he had reversed his previously announced decision to leave the Senate if he could not get the plea thrown out.

Further, he said, clearly playing to a nationalist audience at home that can follow tribunal proceedings on television, he could not enter a plea of guilty or not guilty because in the Serbian language version of the indictment there were several Croatian words he could not understand.

Naturally, we could not leave this plea unheeded; we could not abandon Crimea and its residents in distress.

As Virgil wrote, however, it is easy to descend into hell but difficult to return; and even Orpheus was unable to convey Eurydice back to earth's sunlight, for he could not resist her pleas to look at her once more.

Mr. Jacobs told Judge Martin Jenkins of United States District Court that he could not say whether a plea agreement would be reached.

Heather L. Browne, director for corporate communications at KBR, said she could not comment on the plea agreement but added in an e-mail statement, "KBR does not in any way condone or tolerate illegal or unethical behavior".