Sentence examples for pleading for leniency from inspiring English sources
More than 160 people wrote to him, mostly Libby's friends, pleading for leniency.
Some 100 community members wrote letters to the judge, pleading for leniency.
Faced with two years in jail, English phoned the firm that owned the billboards daily, pleading for leniency.
Pleading for leniency, Father Paquin told the judge that he himself was abused by a priest as a teenager.
Before Judge Gardephe delivered his sentence, Martoma's family sent him a hundred and forty-three letters from friends and supporters, pleading for leniency.
In a 2007 letter to the judge in that case pleading for leniency, Mr. Davis's father said his son and another inmate had founded the gang for protection after a black inmate broke his jaw in the Denver County Jail.
He pleaded for leniency and eventually was granted his wish.
Some came to the sentencing hearing to plead for leniency.
Mrs. Plavsic's defense lawyers today pleaded for leniency.
Inevitably, an array of western governments and human-rights organisations have already pleaded for leniency.
Ms. Alexander had visited Peter Gotti in jail and pleaded for leniency in sentencing, the Daily News reported.
