Sentence examples for prosecution to accept from inspiring English sources

"This Court now holds that, as a general rule, defense counsel has the duty to communicate formal offers from the prosecution to accept a plea on terms and conditions that may be favorable to the accused".

He stood trial for murder after the prosecution refused to accept his plea of guilty to manslaughter on the grounds that he was suffering from paranoid schizophrenia.

The prosecution refused to accept the offer of the defendant to plead guilty for a sentence of life without parole, claiming that severe punishment was an insult to the officer killed and inadequate vengeance for his life.

The prosecution asked the court to accept into the record a portion of Mr. Kasab's admission of guilt on Monday related to the killings at a busy Mumbai train station, where witnesses saw Mr. Kasab and an accomplice mow down dozens of people, but requested that it not admit other aspects of the confession that, it asserts, were filled with "lies and contradiction".

We would be appalled if persons who were rich and famous avoided prosecution or received lenient treatment because of their status, but we seem content to accept selective prosecution for the same reasons.

The prosecution then asked the judge to accept the plea.

Prosecution lawyers urged Judge Cooke to accept that evaluation as neutral and final.

Jackson also notes, as I point out in my article, that Willingham refused to accept the prosecution's offer to plead guilty and take a life sentence.

This official went on, "The black guys" — those in the Pentagon's secret program — "say we've got to accept the prosecution.

This official went on, "The black guys"—those in the Pentagon's secret program—"say we've got to accept the prosecution.

After examining him, four doctors came to the conclusion that he was suffering from paranoid schizophrenia, and the prosecution indicated it was willing to accept Sutcliffe's plea of not guilty to murder but guilty of manslaughter on grounds of diminished responsibility.