Sentence examples for plea of innocent from inspiring English sources

"You know why he entered the plea of innocent?" Mr. Adam told reporters.

At Wednesday's hearing, Mr. Blagojevich made a point of entering a plea of "innocent" instead of not guilty.

He was was released after entering a written plea of innocent and posting a $2,500 surety bond.

"Jayson Williams intends to enter a plea of innocent of all charges at the appropriate time," said Judy Smith, Mr. Hayden's spokeswoman.

At his trial Gacy's plea of innocent by reason of insanity was supported by the testimony of several psychologists, who diagnosed him as schizophrenic, but was rejected by the jury, which found him guilty of all 33 murders of which he was accused; he was executed by lethal injection in 1994.

"This may reflect greater willingness by authorities to reconsider the guilt of innocent defendants who accepted plea bargains rather than risk higher penalties at trial," the authors wrote.

Sweeney ruled that, while Huhne "falsely pretended over a long period, until his eventual plea of guilty, that he was innocent", it was not "just and reasonable" to order him to pay the costs of investigating Briscoe.

In an effort to mitigate her sentence, in the appeal Ms Wu changed her plea from innocent to guilty of "fund-raising fraud", a lesser charge.

A federal judge recently guessed that thousands of innocent Americans could be stuck behind bars because of coercive plea bargaining.Let judges judgeMany other countries ban plea bargains or limit them stringently.

People close to her said she decided to change her plea from innocent once she understood the evidence against her and the magnitude of the destruction wrought by what became known as the Serbs' "ethnic cleansing" campaign.

In one case a man was executed despite the last-minute plea of his co-defendant that he was innocent.