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Synonyms for plea

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Synonyms for plea

an earnest or urgent request

an explanation offered to justify an action or make it better understood

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Synonyms for plea

a humble request for help from someone in authority

(law) a defendant's answer by a factual matter (as distinguished from a demurrer)

an answer indicating why a suit should be dismissed

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Setback for Nawaz as SC rejects 'permanent bail' plea
Court sought reply while issuing notices over the plea filed for the cancellation of bail of DSP Shehzad Ali, Inspector Muhammad Saleem and sub-inspector Waqas.
Just after Justice Yahya Afridi recused himself from hearing NAB pleas, Supreme Court bench hearing these appeal pleas stood dissolved.
"The Court determines that there is no factual basis to support Defendant's plea of guilty," Doumar said.
29, Pino entered his guilty plea. In his plea, he said he made a false statement in connection with a 2016 purchase of a Glock Model 23.
The Council said in its consultation on the guidelines that it had "designed the guideline to encourage pleas as early in the process as possible to maximise the relief to victims and witnesses, while leaving a small level of reduction for pleas late in the court process where they spare victims and witnesses from giving evidence and provide victims with the satisfaction of knowing that the offender has admitted guilt".
Its research found the public was more likely to support the idea of sentence reductions for early guilty pleas if the purpose of reductions was to save victims from the emotional trauma of giving evidence.
Accordingly, Padilla, Frye, and Lafler may change nothing about oversight of prosecutorial tactics or the basic terms of pleas themselves.
(149) The same defense lawyers tasked with ultimately taking cases to trial are the ones who represent the vast majority of defendants who instead enter pleas. There is no ex ante distinction drawn within public defender programs between defendants who will and will not enter into plea agreements.
The judge told him: "I have to warn you that renewal of your bail after your guilty plea must not be taken as an indication of what sentence will be passed.
of popular participation in this "world of guilty pleas," and
THE WORLD OF GUILTY PLEAS AND THE CALL FOR RESTORING POPULAR
whole system of pleas. Put simply, defendants plead guilty primarily
differential" (21) is that it incentivizes guilty pleas over
Ayesha Hamid, a junior member of Nawaz Sharif's legal team, then filed another plea with a request that the court should halt proceedings until the Supreme Court decides on Nawaz's plea for NAB to consolidate all references.