The federal case United States v. Brawner, from 1972, recognized the "diminished capacity" defense, and other courts since have also treated dementia, and even "mild cognitive impairment," as relevant to a person's competence to plead guilty, such as Alvarez-Jacinto v. United States, in 2010.
But the capital construction now under way was embraced by park advocates, who had long pleaded for such financing.
Facing a steep downturn in sales of regular advertising, commercial broadcasters like ITV have long pleaded for such a change.
John Forster, his biographer and his closest friend, wrote that the suffering children in his works were "his clients whose cause he pleaded with such pathos and humour, and on whose side he got the laughter and tears of all the world".
The idea was that it could lend funds to Greece, which would buy back its debt at market prices ie, at a deep discount to its par value.On a recent visit to Berlin, George Papandreou, the Greek prime minister, pleaded for such buy-backs to be on the negotiating table.
The Brookings Institute pleaded for such collaboration in an April 2014 report, Faith in Equality.
It is also possible, he said, that she might be trying to coax Mr. Zimmerman to the negotiating table to plead guilty to such a lesser charge.
McKinnon had already agreed to plead guilty to such offences, an option which the director of public prosecutions had turned down – a decision which was now itself a subject of judicial review.
Lanny Breuer, who served as the assistant attorney general for the criminal division at the time, said the so-called "collateral consequences" of forcing HSBC to plead guilty -- such as the possibility of the bank losing business and shedding jobs -- "were absolutely a factor" in the department's decision to seek a settlement rather than pursue criminal charges. .
It is pointless for a modern president to plead that some things, such as the business cycle, are beyond his control.
