Sentence examples for take the plea from inspiring English sources

Take the plea.' ".

"Take the plea, take the plea.

"I didn't tell him, 'Edwin, take the plea,' and I didn't tell him, 'Don't take the plea,' " Mr. Mays said.

Take the plea of a police officer offered an all-expense paid wedding by Macy's.

"Our lawyer told us to take the plea," she told me.

All but a tiny minority of defendants take the plea as the price of avoiding the crapshoot of a trial.

Since he didn't take the plea-bargain he now faces 8-10 years in a medium- or high-security U.S. prison if he gets extradited.

He took the plea.

His lawyer took the plea deal — one year at Rikers Island for burglary — but Judge DiMango was not done.

Before a defendant pleads guilty, Judge DiMango asks the standard question: "Did anybody threaten you, force you or coerce you" into taking the plea?

"If I took the plea, I would have had to testify that I did what I did to intimidate Tyler and that would be a lie.