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They argue that Mr. Cahill was denied a fair trial because a flood of news coverage in central New York prejudiced jurors against him, and they say he was wrongly denied the chance to make a last plea for mercy, as is permitted in some states.
A brief recently submitted to the Court of Appeals by defense lawyers in the second case argues, for example, that people facing the death penalty in New York should have the right to make a last plea for mercy before jurors consider execution.
The two men worked the phones and at a closed-door party lunch made a last plea to fellow Democrats to stand with them.
One of Mr. Traficant's colleagues in the Ohio delegation, Representative Steven C. LaTourette, a Republican and former prosecutor, made a last plea for the House to delay its decision until September, after Mr. Traficant's expected sentencing next week and after courts could hear some of his legal motions seeking a new trial and other relief.
But he flew here Thursday morning to make a last-minute plea before the senators.
TODAY Ed Miliband, the Labour leader, is expected to make a last-minute plea to Scotland not to abandon his party.
But they were all there to make a last-minute plea to voters to vote "Yes" on a referendum, this Friday, that would bring same-sex marriage to Ireland.
Although details of the Bush-Hastert meeting were sketchy afterward, several senior Republican Congressional aides said beforehand that the speaker planned to make a last-ditch plea to the president to help Republican leaders derail the House bill.
The Prime Minister will make a last-minute plea to US President Barack Obama and the Russian President Vladimir Putin to sign up to a landmark pledge to set up a public register showing who owns the tens of thousands of anonymous shell companies.
Two of Mr. Shaikh's cousins, Soohail and Nasir Shaikh, who traveled to China to visit him in prison and make a last-minute plea for clemency, said they were "astonished at suggestions that Akmal himself should have provided evidence of his own fragile state of mind," according to the BBC.
