At times it reads like nothing so much as a helpless plea for the presence of fact checkers at publishing houses, however cutback-conscious they may be.
I was struck by Deborah Solomon's comments, in her review of Deirdre Bair's "Saul Steinberg: A Biography" (Nov. 25), that the book was so "riddled with factual errors" that it occasionally read like "a helpless plea for the presence of fact checkers at publishing houses, however cutback-conscious they may be".
A copy of the so-called stipulation of fact accompanying the plea offer and obtained by The New York Times is signed by Specialist Morlock and an Army defense lawyer but not by an Army prosecutor.
And at Camp Rhino, John Walker Lindh, the American now serving a 20-year sentence for aiding the Taliban, was stripped and bound with duct tape to a stretcher for two days, according to the statement of fact in his plea-bargain agreement.
"Outsized" fines and penalties for past misconduct "are not proportionate to our smaller size", grumbled McFarlane, a plea of poverty that jars with the fact that Barclays still managed to dig deep and pay 323 employees more than £1m last year.
By making the facts of their plea of innocence public, those seeking justice can send a message that resonates far beyond the narrow legal issues usually raised in motions to overturn convictions.
The charge also cites the NBA's failure to supply adequate financial data so the union can determine whether its "plea of poverty" is based on real facts.
Moreover, because of the plea of no contest, the court never examined the facts of the incident.
Although other similar cases have resulted in jail, the judge suspended Randall's sentence because of his guilty plea, and the fact it was a "one off" at the low end of the scale of offending.
Despite entering an official plea of not guilty, Tsarnaev's defence team did not contest the facts of the case in the guilt phase.
Miskiw's lawyer Trevor Burke QC asked the judge to take account of his early guilty plea and the fact he had expressed "genuine remorse".
