Sentence examples for defense plea from inspiring English sources

A three‐ judge panel will hear then a defense plea to have the case moved from state to Federal jurisdiction.

"Although there is no reasonable ground for Li Mengnan to kill someone," the written defense plea at the trial stated, "the hospital's negligence, overprescription, and terrible quality of service are the main reasons this tragedy occurred".

The German court sentenced him to the maximum permissible sentence of life imprisonment on Tuesday, as the prosecution had demanded, rejecting a defense plea for the case to be dropped under European Union regulations covering due process.

A18 No Quick Trial in DeLay Case The new judge hearing the criminal case against Representative Tom DeLay rebuffed a defense plea Tuesday to set a trial for as soon as next week.

Superior Court Judge Charles McGrath rejected a defense plea for probation for 20-year-old Jose Martinez in the manslaughter case.

Pleas of not guilty because of insanity are commonplace in courts of law these days, but John Paul Jr. may have a new defense plea: not guilty by reason of fright.

A judge rebuffed defense pleas today and ordered that Christian Brando remain in jail on a murder charge.

Judge Mahesh Chandra said he would sentence Satwant Singh, a 22-year-old bodyguard of Mrs. Gandhi, Kehar Singh, a civil servant, and Balbir Singh, another bodyguard, after hearing defense pleas.

In issuing the sentence, Judge Dickran M. Tevrizian Jr. of federal District Court here rejected defense pleas that Mr. Pellicano had no money and fined him $6,000.

A federal judge in Newark will hear defense pleas today to throw out evidence gathered by a system that recorded almost every keystroke typed into Mr. Scarfo's computer, including the password that investigators used to unscramble his files.

The defendants' counsel are of the opinion- that only the conscientious judgment of each counsel can determine the form and length of the final defense pleas in this unusual Trial, notwithstanding the generally recognized right of the Tribunal, as part of its responsibility for guiding the proceedings, to prevent a possible misuse of the freedom of speech.