If I hadn't had Jim to steady my nerves, as well as all those other anxious divers watching, I would have pleaded a headache and gone back on deck.
If things had occurred the way I wanted them to, he would have pled guilty to possession of a weapon and done community service, and he would not have been able to purchase firearms anymore".
Faced with the time, expense, risk, and stress of a trial, almost anyone put in that situation would have pled guilty, taken the misdemeanor rap, and agreed to sessions of HTIC-mandated counseling, even if she were innocent.
"A year and a half ago they would have pleaded, 'Can I go?' Now they don't even question it.
Charged with this, they would have pleaded impotence.
In deciding to pursue the death penalty, prosecutors rejected a plea offer floated last week by Mr. Holmes's lawyers, in which their client would have pleaded guilty to the shooting in exchange for life in prison with no chance of parole.
How many of the 30 defendants present for a single "mass plea" hearing in Louisiana's 16th judicial district in June would have pleaded not guilty if they'd had more than 20 seconds of legal counsel?
The Minnesota Twins had just snared a 12-9 lead, so, naturally, the dedicated souls who remained at soggy Yankee Stadium did the math and stood and begged for a grand slam as zealously as they would have pleaded for postseason tickets.
The move to pursue BAE with criminal charges followed the breakdown of talks aimed at a US-style plea bargain under which the firm would have pleaded guilty to certain offences and paid a large fine.
In the novel, I chronicled these humiliations in vivid detail, even the time he defecated in his pants and I had to clean him, an incident he found so shameful that for many days afterward he was unable to look me in the eye, and which, it goes without saying, he would have pleaded with me, if he could have brought himself to speak of it, never to mention to anyone.
