Sentence examples for opened plea from inspiring English sources

Federal prosecutors and lawyers for Robert P. Hanssen, the F.B.I. agent charged with spying for Russia, have opened plea bargain negotiations, government officials said today.

Saracco and Bibb opened plea-bargaining negotiations by saying that they would settle for no less a sentence than twelve and a half to twenty-five years in prison.

On referendum night, Mr Sarkozy made an open plea for the job, urging "a break with the pensée unique [single way of thinking] and recipes of the past".

Prosecutors could use the threat of making Mr. Schwarz face yet another jury to try to open plea negotiations or to seek some other end to the case.

At the insistence of the prosecution, Polanski received what's known as an "open plea" — that is, a plea where his sentence was left to the discretion of the judge, Laurence J. Rittenband.

After submitting underlings to a spiel on the top 20 targeted Congressional Democrats, the agency director, a patronage appointee, was quoted as issuing an open plea for the government-paid workers to help "our candidates".

If Trump's open plea to Russia shocked Wilentz, he did note that there has been at least one instance of a Presidential candidate clandestinely trying to collude with foreign powers to advantage his campaign.

But Bayerische Landesbank's open plea for a "German solution" provided the first suggestion that the banks might come to the rescue if Kirch shored up its balance sheet by selling off properties.

I'd like to make an open plea to all you cool cats out there to sponsor our little fete this Friday.

Billy, Jimmy, this is my open plea: If it really is something I said -- or something that I didn't say -- please accept my apology and work things out.

And then there are the allegations of the bank's perpetually lousy treatment of OCC regulators, which seems like an open plea to get your CAMELS rating cut.