Sentence examples for plea in order from inspiring English sources

"Mr. Afzal agreed it was in his best interest to accept a plea in order to avoid the possibility of a lengthy jail sentence," Mr. Konoski said.

That could signal that he is prepared to change his not guilty plea in order to speed his extradition to Los Angeles, where he faces a murder charge in the 2000 killing of his friend Susan Berman.

Prosecutors said they agreed to the plea bargain in order to find out what happened to the tapes.

An important issue for the Justice Department will be developing standards for when a nonprosecution agreement is better than using plea bargains in order to secure the cooperation of witnesses.

Most defense lawyers encourage their clients to enter into a plea agreement in order to avoid a lengthy prison sentence.

While many protesters arrested in Ferguson agreed to plea deals in order to avoid a strung-out series of court dates, Rose told The Huffington Post that he's glad he and several other protesters went to trial because "it holds the city accountable".

Johnson, the MP for Beckenham and brother of the London mayor, Boris Johnson, said: "US marshals will on Friday escort my 65-year-old constituent Chris Tappin from Heathrow to a jail in Texas, where he will face pressure to plea-bargain in order to avoid lengthy incarceration pending a financially ruinous trial for a crime he insists he did not commit.

The Cleveland man accused of holding three women captive in his home for a decade entered a guilty plea on Friday in order to avoid the death penalty.

But in another case, a former client named Thomas Mickens, a convicted cocaine dealer, said that Mr. Simels had kept a government plea offer from him in order to keep getting paid.

He has made at least three separate appeals to George Steinbrenner, the Yankees' principal owner, to keep him on his team, made his plea of no contest in order to facilitate his return to baseball last summer and, last week, he tearfully asked Selig for another chance to get back in the game.

Moreover, as a good scientist, Butz closed with a plea for more data "in order to know whether shortages of scientists and engineers are in fact developing and whether strategies to encourage their production are succeeding".