"submit a plea to" is correct and usable in written English.
This phrase is commonly used in a legal context when someone is asking for leniency from a judge. For example: "The defendant submitted a plea to the judge to reduce her sentence."
But universities and local officials lack motivation to help.In 2002 Ren Zhengshao, then a student in Shanghai, was able to take the gaokao only after submitting a plea to the city government.
Leading lights of anthropology have submitted a plea to the Department of the Interior to change a rule concerning how museums and universities are to dispose of "culturally unaffiliated remains"—ancient bones and objects that cannot be linked to a particular tribe or group.
Morel, who came to court in handcuffs and shackles, did not submit a plea and will return on Thursday when a homicide lawyer will be assigned to his case.
Tempers flared when Ms. Alyokhina insisted several times that she did not understand the "ideological" elements to the charges against her and could not submit a plea.
During a sentencing hearing on Jan . 17 Mr. Giacchetto submitted a plea for leniency to Judge Robert P. Patterson Jr. of Federal District Court in Manhattan in the form of a handwritten 10-page poem titled "Pontifex Vivam".
Because an individual who submitted a plea and was convicted forfeited his goods to the crown, some individuals chose to stand mute under the threat of peine forte et dure to ensure that their goods and estates would be inherited by their families.
Manning is not submitting a plea as part of an agreement or deal with the government.
Two months after his arrest, the senator submitted a plea by mail, signing a statement that said he "engaged in conduct which I knew or should have known tended to arouse alarm or resentment".
He submitted a guilty plea to a single Virginia felony charge for dog fighting, receiving a 3-year prison sentence suspended on condition of good behavior, and a $2,500 fine.
