The defence lawyer, Zola Majavu, had pleaded for leniency for Ndlovu, saying that he grew up in squalor, had an alcoholic mother and was already a full-time farm labourer with a conviction for petty theft at the age of 15. "I have never in my professional life pleaded for a client the way I'm doing," Majavu said.
Recent examples include Paul Schrader's "Auto Focus," in which the celebrity (and victim) was the "Hogan's Heroes" star Bob Crane, and Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato's "Party Monster," in which the celebrity (who in real life pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter) was the New York club kid Michael Alig.
Jordan, however, most likely frightened for his life, pled guilty and turned his files over to the court.
Chris Halliwell was imprisoned for life after pleading guilty to murdering 22-year-old Sian O'Callaghan, who went missing after leaving a nightclub in Swindon.
But as a result of the Jones/Lewinsky affair he suffered the further indignity of having his Arkansas law licence suspended for five years, and of being barred for life from pleading cases before the Supreme Court.
In 1981, a 25-year-old Chapman was sentonced to 20 years to life after pleading guilty to second-degree murder.
Mr. Tsvangirai, who returned to Zimbabwe a week ago after fleeing in April in fear for his life, has pleaded with the regional group to send observers by this Sunday.
A man accused of stealing his 93-year-old father's body from a Detroit cemetery in the hope of bringing him back to life has pleaded guilty in exchange for avoiding prison.
In a fight for his political life, Gov. Gray Davis pleaded with Californians today to reject the attempt to recall him, describing it as part of a right-wing effort "to steal elections Republicans cannot win".
