Sentence examples for pleas based on from inspiring English sources
The captain of the Shepherds' boat, immune, like all of his crew, to pleas based on history, culture or traditional diet, replies, "How can it not be like that?" A crew member sums up the young eco-warriors' discomfort with having to listen to an adversary: "To actually have to come face to face and have these conversations, it's a little bit challenging".
He later said he had agreed to the plea based on his lawyer's incorrect advice that it would not affect his immigration status.
But she did not only deny his plea based on procedure; Ms. Harmon wrote that the scientists' reports were not credible because they each reviewed different kinds of evidence.
"I've never seen any case where a person was allowed to withdraw a guilty plea based on his expected treatment in prison".
Mr. Ward said he planned "to take a look to see whether or not there are grounds for a motion to vacate" Mr. Sarzynski's guilty plea based on Detective Palase's arrest.
Now our pleas are based on mutual respect.
Challenges to plea agreements based on misconduct by defense lawyers will presumably be common as well, given how many more convictions follow guilty pleas and the fluid nature of plea negotiations.
An Afghan tribal leader convicted in an international narcotics trafficking conspiracy was sentenced to life in prison on Thursday by a judge in New York who rejected pleas for leniency based on the man's cooperation with the American authorities.
Some 95percentt of federal convictions are obtained by guilty pleas, almost all of them based on plea bargains that prosecutors dictate.
U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain in Manhattan formally administered the sentence on Stamford, Conn., company SAC Capital and three related entities based on pleas last fall by the companies to wire fraud and securities fraud.
The case eventually led to new regulations issued in 1818 by the Bailiwick legislature, known as the Chief Pleas at the time, based on a review of ancient royal decrees.
