Sentence examples for plead a trial from inspiring English sources

If the court determines she is fit to plead, a trial of issue is set for 18 April.

While a child of 10 can appear in the youth court, an adult defendant with a similar mental age would probably be considered unfit to plead, making a trial impossible.

They said he was unfit to plead at a trial and follow the proceedings.

"It is not impossible that if returned now, then after a reasonable period of further treatment and assessment he will be found fit to plead and a trial can take place".

When he appears in court, the boy can plead guilty, or a trial date will be set, Mr. Nearey said.

One of her lawyers, Norman A. Pattis, said after the court hearing that Ms. Gristina decided to plead guilty because a trial would have "hurt people close" to her.

In December, 2008, Mohammed and his co-defendants cast further legal uncertainty over the proceedings at Guantánamo by insisting that they preferred to plead guilty without a trial, and be put to death as "martyrs".

He pleaded not guilty; a trial is pending.

Back in Memphis, Ray pleaded guilty, forfeiting a trial, and was sentenced to 99 years in prison.

The essential story is not pop's greatest enigma: a man confesses a murder to his mother, vainly pleads poverty in a trial and ends up resigned to his fate.

As a result, Liu Tienan, the former deputy head of the National Reform and Development Commission, pleaded guilty in a trial in the northern province of Hebei on September 24.