Sentence examples for obtaining guilty from inspiring English sources
It isn't mentioned as a relevant factor in the Justice Department's guidelines for leniency, and it hasn't stopped the department from obtaining guilty pleas from several large publicly traded companies.
It boasts an average conviction rate of 70% over the past five years which suggests juries are not an insurmountable obstacle to obtaining guilty verdicts.American juries have certainly succeeded in convicting in recent big corporate scandals, including Bernie Ebbers of WorldCom and, last week, Tyco's Dennis Kozlowski.
Warren over the summer pilloried the SEC for failing to finalize rules and waivers, and for settling cases without obtaining guilty pleas.
She also was instrumental in obtaining guilty pleas in the Credit Lyonnais banking scandal and in getting $1.5 billion in criminal settlements from Boeing Co. and Tenet Healthcare Corp.
Among the cases that were abandoned were several in which he had already obtained guilty pleas.
All told, Mr. Cuomo's office has obtained guilty pleas from more than a dozen aides and operators of contracting agencies.
It said prosecutors had thus far convicted or obtained guilty pleas from 55 individuals and 20 corporations.
Wang said that Xinjiang police and prosecutors would now be under intense pressure to solve cases and obtain guilty verdicts, further chipping away at suspects' already flimsy legal protections.
After his federal sentencing, he filed a motion in federal court to vacate his sentence on the ground that two of the earlier convictions, both for robbery, were constitutionally invalid because of improperly obtained guilty pleas and inadequate legal advice.
He is trying to obtain guilty pleas or convictions in peripheral areas to win the coöperation of witnesses who can illuminate the issues at the center of his inquiry.
In other words, Enron went bankrupt because Mr Fastow was a crook, not because it was a house of cards.In building their case, prosecutors obtained guilty pleas from executives just below Mr Skilling.
