Sentence examples for right to plead from inspiring English sources

The Court denied Belgium's right to plead for a Canadian company.

Cable is right to plead that judgments must be reserved until the share price has settled.

In the field of international trade, they would be right to plead not guilty to all three.

Mr. MacMahon added that it was Mr. Moussaoui's right to plead guilty if the plea was knowing, intelligent and voluntary.

Among these are the right to counsel, 3 the right to plead not guilty, and the right to be tried in a courtroom presided over by a judge.

Shocked by the fact that John Hinckley used this defence to escape punishment for shooting Ronald Reagan in 1981, many states restricted a defendant's right to plead insanity.

The inevitable effect of the provision was said to be to discourage assertion of the Fifth Amendment right not to plead guilty and to deter exercise of the Sixth Amendment right to demand a jury trial.

The 'inevitable effect' in that case was 'to discourage assertion of the Fifth Amendment right not to plead guilty and to deter exercise of the Sixth Amendment right to demand a jury trial.' Id., at 581, 88 S.Ct., at 1216.

He has hired civil-rights lawyers to plead his case.

Stang, who days before her death had met with Brazil's human rights secretary to plead for protection for the farmers, was the victim of a contract killing.

Paice, who has the right to appeal, pleaded not guilty at a disciplinary hearing in Dublin.