Most people who are sex offenders plea bargain, often because the victims themselves don't want to testify. If the minimum sentence is 25 years, no one would ever plead to a sex offense.
Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend / With thee; but, sir, so what I plead is just. / Why do sinners' ways prosper? and why must / Disappointment all I endeavour end?
I beg your lordship's patience till I can procure my papers. I cannot plead until I have those papers that I insisted upon.
Obviously on municipal charges, the wise thing is to plead guilty and do your community service, even if you haven't committed the offense,
He's not going to plead to deliberate homicide, but he will be entering some pleas tomorrow.
I think the advertisers are going to go away. She's tarnished. And in looking to the future will she plead guilty? If you're an advertiser, you're facing a woman who may go on trial.
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.
Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and make her springs dry.
We are a guilty party from a technical point of view, ... All we can do is to plead mitigatory circumstances to our arrears situation and pray that the jury will see for itself how genuine our efforts at self correction are.
My understanding was that he was to plead guilty this afternoon.