Richard Reid, like any defendant, is free to plead guilty to criminal charges. The Justice Department has not entered into any plea agreement with Reid.
In the last two years, the government has painstakingly climbed ladders, gotten different people along the way to plead guilty in order to go after someone at the higher rung. We're now at the top of the ladder.
Our wrangling lawyers are so litigious and busy here on earth, that I think they will plead their clients' cases hereafter, some of them in hell
If the judge is saying the maximum, there's not much incentive to plead guilty.
He was going to plead guilty. This was a white collar case and typically in white collar cases, we don't see these type of tragic results.
Abu Ali intends to plead not guilty to all of these charges. He expects to have a fair trial at which he will be vindicated.
The way the law is written, I didn't have any other choice but to plead guilty.
Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.
The only witness against him in the United States was threatened that if he didn't plead guilty and cooperate, he would be put under military detention. It shows the extent to which the United States is manipulating evidence and pressuring witnesses.
Foreman told Ray to plead guilty and he'd then give his brother $500, if Ray didn't cause any problems at the guilty plea hearing, and he could take that $500 and hire a lawyer to set aside the plea. Foreman actually put that in writing.