Sentence examples for plea based from inspiring English sources

He later said he had agreed to the plea based on his lawyer's incorrect advice that it would not affect his immigration status.

"I've never seen any case where a person was allowed to withdraw a guilty plea based on his expected treatment in prison".

But she did not only deny his plea based on procedure; Ms. Harmon wrote that the scientists' reports were not credible because they each reviewed different kinds of evidence.

Mr. Ward said he planned "to take a look to see whether or not there are grounds for a motion to vacate" Mr. Sarzynski's guilty plea based on Detective Palase's arrest.

The captain of the Shepherds' boat, immune, like all of his crew, to pleas based on history, culture or traditional diet, replies, "How can it not be like that?" A crew member sums up the young eco-warriors' discomfort with having to listen to an adversary: "To actually have to come face to face and have these conversations, it's a little bit challenging".

"The government may well be fashioning plea deals based upon the lack of underlying evidence," Mr. Banks, of Legal Aid, said.

The District Attorney's Office said that prosecutors often ordered further testing to confirm results, but that suspects might accept plea agreements based only on presumptive testing.

Challenges to plea agreements based on misconduct by defense lawyers will presumably be common as well, given how many more convictions follow guilty pleas and the fluid nature of plea negotiations.

Now our pleas are based on mutual respect.

The inquiry that led to today's pleas was based in large part on documents provided by a former chief executive of Christie's, Christopher M. Davidge, who resigned on Christmas Eve.

Barry Bonds's personal trainer wants to withdraw his guilty plea because prosecutors based their steroid distribution case on an illegal recording, his lawyer said yesterday in a court hearing.