Sentence examples for plea rejected from inspiring English sources
Andrew Chan, a ringleader for Australia's drug-smuggling "Bali Nine", has had his clemency plea rejected, a local court has announced.
ISRAEL: PRISONER PLEA REJECTED The Supreme Court rejected a last-minute appeal that sought to prevent the release of Lebanese detainees who have been held as "bargaining chips" for missing Israeli soldiers.
(Reuters) ASIA PHILIPPINES: ESTRADA PLEA REJECTED The government has given the ousted president, Joseph Estrada, one week to answer corruption complaints, rejecting his appeal for extra time.
B1 Terror Suspect's Plea Rejected Wadih El-Hage, described as a former aide to Osama bin Laden, asked to plead guilty to charges involving the 1998 embassy bombings in Africa, but the judge rejected the plea.
Stephen Kinzer (NYT) FRANCE: PAPON PLEA REJECTED President Jacques Chirac has denied a plea for a pardon on medical grounds from Maurice Papon, 89, the former Vichy official sentenced to 10 years in 1998 for his role in helping to deport thousands of Jews to Nazi death camps.
Warren Hoge (NYT) THE AMERICAS CHILE: PINOCHET PLEA REJECTED The Supreme Court denied an appeal by lawyers for Gen. Augusto Pinochet to put off an interrogation by an investigating judge looking into allegations that the former dictator was involved in kidnapping and murder.
The prisoners executed on Wednesday had their mercy pleas rejected by the president.
The premiers' pleas rejected, CSA President Alexander James McPhail offered the banks the names of two possible general managers.
Their long notes to investors who receive hundreds, if not thousands, of pitches are really simple pleas: Reject me.
She had never, she explained, had one of her plea agreements rejected before.
