Sentence examples for hope for leniency from inspiring English sources

Normally, that means a plea deal and a hope for leniency.

One case in which people cannot hope for leniency is when they created structures to hide the true ownership of an account.

Marc L. Mukasey, defending Mr. DiPascali, repeatedly assured the judge that Mr. DiPascali knew his only hope for leniency was to cooperate.

During a raid on a Moussavi campaign office, he demands that a bearded Basiji (a member of the state's volunteer hard-line militia) produce a warrant, and refuses to "bow his head and hope for leniency" when the man rebukes him.

I was instructed to say nothing and hope for leniency. .

Stanislav O. Samutsevich, the father of the oldest defendant, said that he had hoped for leniency.

Those associates have all pleaded guilty, hoping for leniency when they are sentenced later.

Mr. Cohen, who has also pleaded guilty to additional gun and drug charges, admitted that he was hoping for leniency at sentencing in return for his cooperation.

The lawyers, he added, said that they hoped for leniency given that she had assisted the authorities with details about other people's crimes.

The case against Mr. Medunjanin centered on the testimony of his friends from Flushing High School — Najibullah Zazi and Zarein Ahmedzay — who had already pleaded guilty to their involvement in the plot and hoped for leniency in their sentencing.

It also owned up to breaking UN sanctions governing Iraq's "oil-for-food" programme in 2001 and 2002.The company, which replaced five of its eight directors last year, reported itself to the SFO in February 2008, hoping for leniency.