Sentence examples for defence plea from inspiring English sources

The defence plea was denied in November 2000.

Despite a defence plea to hand out a suspended sentence, recorder Ian Murphy QC said he had no choice but to impose an immediate prison sentence on Owens.

A month later, on Monday, the appeals court accepted a defence plea that he had spent 35 months in jail, a "substantial part" of his term, and granted him bail after suspending his sentence.

Ahalya's defence plea is also found in some of the Puranas.

The court threw out Chu Boon's defence plea and he was convicted on grounds that he had "under his control, the tombstone of his brother, Tan Chay Wa, on which was engraved in Chinese characters an inscription which tended to advocate acts prejudicial to the security of Singapore".

With the unstoppable rise of cognitive neuroscience – imaging brains at work – there is an urgent need to review critically what many of us believe to be the new phrenology, by means of which defence pleas of "It wasn't me, Guv, it was my brain wot dunnit", can be taken seriously by the courts.

The European court upheld Margaret Thatcher's self-defence plea.

Judge David Rennie accepted the defence's plea that Mann, although not mentally ill, committed these extreme acts of violence (his mum survived the frenzied attack after locking herself in the bathroom and dialling 999, and surgeons managed to sew his dick back on) because he was in a temporary state of "drug-induced psychosis".

The defence was a plea of justification.

According to Bruce Barket, a New York criminal defence lawyer, Alford pleas are often used when the state has "a real problem with the case, they have no other suspects and they just want it to be over".The three were sentenced to time served, which was 18 years and 78 days, and immediately released though, to ensure good behaviour, a suspended sentence of ten years hangs over each man's head.

Judge Simon Newell denied Wallwork's defence lawyer's pleas for his client to be given a suspended sentence and jailed Wallwork for 15 months on 5 December 2011.