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Word: plea (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Over & Out. In Milwaukee, after police watched George Stein, 79, drive down the wrong side of the street, make an illegal left turn and pass eight stop signs on a five-block trip, he was fined $50 and lost his license despite his plea that he had trouble walking, hearing and seeing and only drove once a month-to visit his doctor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 19, 1957 | 8/19/1957 | See Source »

Steyskal, who was returned early this month from a Federal mental hospital in Springfield, Missouri, where he had been sent in February, entered a plea of not guilty...

Author: By Richard T. Cooper, | Title: Steyskal Gets Continuance; $25,000 Bail | 8/14/1957 | See Source »

...Japan you can do anything if you are drunk. Perhaps we should advertise Japan abroad not as the land of Mt. Fuji and geishas but as a paradise for alcoholics." About twelve Japanese a year win acquittal on murder charges by proving they were drunk or drugged (a plea that is no defense at all in U.S. courts). Announced the Justice Ministry: "Revision of Article 39 is being considered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Status of Mind | 8/12/1957 | See Source »

Steyskal has now been certified competent to stand trial, Mahoney said and must now enter a plea of guilty or not guilty this morning before Federal District Judge William T. McCarthy...

Author: By Richard T. Cooper, | Title: Ex-Student Faces Judge For Threat to Kill Pusey | 8/8/1957 | See Source »

...Turned down the plea of Old Guard Republican Samuel Wilder King, 70, for renomination, instead chose young (38) Honolulu Ikeman, Lawyer William Francis Quinn, as twelfth territorial governor of Hawaii...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Chair for George | 8/5/1957 | See Source »

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