We may as well plead guilty.
"If that's the Peruvian law, regardless of the mitigating circumstances, then you are as well pleading guilty rather than defending that to the nth degree and be sitting there with 15 years that you're trying to appeal and reduce.
The Libor submitter Peter Johnson, 61, of Tunbridge Wells, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud in October 2014.
The Well pleads for the "invert's" right to existence.
In a video obtained by Associated Press Television News, the two Jordanian truckers, seized after leaving an American base close to the Iraqi-Syrian border near the town of Qaim, said they were being treated well and pleaded with their company to meet the kidnappers' demands.
"How?" He said, "Well, you plead not guilty and she pleads guilty".
It sometimes backfires, but if you have nothing else to lose, you might as well try pleading with the principal.
It is the persistent, if well intentioned, pleading, mixed with first incomprehension and then indignation at even the polite hint of a no-thank-you.
BNP is looking at paying a fine several times that amount, as well as pleading guilty to a felony (as Crédit Suisse had to do when it paid a $2.6 billion fine in May for helping Americans escape US taxes) and losing, presumably temporarily, the ability to clear dollar transactions for its customers, which means losing the customers.
As well as pleading guilty to the attack, the plea agreement also requires Rivera to pay compensation to Sony.
Michael Milken, who masterminded the junk-bond unit, continued to make headlines well after he pleaded guilty in 1990 to violating securities laws and served time in prison.
