Then DeFoor had an idea: "What about the pre-plea conference?" Right away the lawyers knew this could work.
A pre-plea conference is a meeting between the prosecutor and the defendant's lawyer at which a plea deal is worked out to bring to a judge.
Prime minister Richard Tallow, "in a nod towards tradition", retreats to Whitley Bay to make his conference plea for four more years.
Sohu's Mr Zhang, one of China's richest entrepreneurs, made a plea at a conference in Shanghai recently for Chinese to be less jealous of the wealthy.
Twenty-one-year-old Holden Matthews, the son of a sheriff's deputy, entered his not guilty plea via video conference from the St Landry Parish jail.
Klopp's press conference plea for the local media to be more supportive of his colleague will have made a few Schalke fans wonder about the Dortmund manager's motives as well.
DANIEL ARAP MOI, Kenya's president, opened the 11th meeting of CITES (the convention on international trade in endangered species of wild fauna and flora) on April 10th with an impassioned plea for the conference to outlaw any more trade in ivory.
Jennifer writhes in embarrassment as she overhears her father's news-conference plea for her release.
When R.V. manufacturers recently sought a meeting, senior Fed staff members refused to see them in person and instead heard their pleas in a conference call.
Jones knew – Beckett rightly quotes his final, impassioned plea to his union conference to support continued restraint – that it would destroy much of his life's work.
