Sentence examples for effective plea from inspiring English sources

A fine film by any measure, it's also the most tacitly effective plea for legalised gay marriage yet seen in the movies; no wonder US film studios wouldn't touch it.

Odets's Waiting for Lefty (1935), his first great success, used both auditorium and stage for action and was an effective plea for labour unionism; Awake and Sing (1935) is a naturalistic family drama; and Golden Boy (1937; filmed 1939) concerns an Italian youth who rejects his artistic potential to become a boxer.

WASHINGTON — Criminal defendants have a constitutional right to effective lawyers during plea negotiations, the Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday in a pair of 5-to-4 decisions that vastly expanded judges' supervision of the criminal justice system.

The Supreme Court has previously ruled that the Sixth Amendment gives a criminal defendant a right to an effective lawyer during plea-bargain negotiations and when the defendant gives up the right to a trial and accepts a plea offer.

One of his most effective and famous pleas had to do with a murder case.

Gladstone's agitation for Balkan intervention in 1876 was no more effective than similar pleas have been in the 1990s.

The Supreme Court has strengthened the right to effective counsel in the plea-bargaining process.

"Now that the Supreme Court has said that you are entitled to effective assistance at the plea-bargaining stage of the case," Mr. Banks said, "It's hard to imagine how prosecutors in states like New York, with antiquated discovery statutes, can continue to withhold critical information".

The pleas were effective with Lorde.

(It also includes a plea for "more effective dialogue and engagement with all public officials").

Defendants offered plea deals need effective counsel to ensure that their decisions are well founded and voluntary, not coerced.