'plead a case' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
This phrase is typically used to describe a situation in which someone is trying to persuade someone else of the validity of their argument. For example: The suspect's lawyer will plead the case for their innocence at their trial.
"I'm not going to stand here and sort of plead a case for why I should be on the team.
Nearly 40 years later that same lawyer, Julius Chambers, stood once again before nine people, this time the Wake County board of education, and this time as a concerned citizen rather than an advocate, to plead a case: that the county ought to retain its programme of assigning pupils to schools based on levels of family income.
She was the first woman to plead a case before the House of Lords, and was one of the founders of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.
Participation in Saturday's protest is expected to reach well into the thousands, continuing our tradition of banding together to prove a point, share our thoughts or plead a case to our government.
Sometimes serendipity pleads a case.
Book XII deals with the ideal orator in action, after his training is completed: his character, the rules that he must follow in pleading a case, the style of his eloquence, and when he should retire.
He has also been receiving help from a number of psychologists, one of whom, Deidre Anderson, has been pleading a case for leniency and understanding of the nature of the task she has, very much a work in progress that would not gain from interruption.
In 1203, Thomas of Marlborough, who was a monk of Evesham Abbey, pled a case for Evesham before Archbishop Walter, and later, in his chronicle, he noted that Simon, John of Tynemouth, and Honorius, all canon lawyers from the archbishop's household, sided with the abbey.
In 1203 the medieval chronicler Thomas of Marlborough, who was a monk of Evesham Abbey, pled a case for Evesham before Hubert Walter and later, in his chronicle, he noted that John, Simon of Southwell, and Honorius of Kent, by now all canon lawyers in the archbishop's household, sided with the abbey.
Some film-makers plead a subtler case.
For the most part, all he could do was plead a moral case.
