Word: plea
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ruling by Civil District Judge Revius Ortique rejected a plea for a temporary injunction against the NCAA, which had ruled English ineligible because he violated the student transfer rule...
Despite the angry mood of the community, the prosecutor and defense attorney proposed a plea bargain to Judge James Morse, which he was ready to accept. The deal: if Hunt would plead guilty to second-degree murder, his sentence would be ten years to life, with the possibility of parole after six years and eight months...
...process for lay judges to rule on matters of law in criminal cases. Side judges, however, can still rule on questions of fact and sentencing (in an appeal to the Vermont Supreme Court, Gordon Hunt's attorney is currently challenging the side judges' right to interfere with plea bargaining...
...Filipinos were yet concerned with the broader consequences of the Cardinal's plea for social peace. Their concern was with Aquino. Nonetheless, after days of public viewing of the martyr's corpse, the crowds respected the Aquino family's wish for a relatively private funeral. Among the nonfamily members present at the service were officials of the U.S. (Ambassador Michael Armacost), Japan, Canada, Australia and the European Community, which sent representatives despite the Philippine foreign ministry's disapproval. No one from the Marcos regime came to the funeral...
...improprieties, "If you think it's bad here, you ought to see it in Tennessee." The Justice Department made haste to do exactly that, eventually prosecuting 44 cases in that state alone. Among those nailed: the brother and uncle of former Governor Ray Blanton. As guilty contractors began plea bargaining for lighter sentences and lower fines, they implicated other firms outside Tennessee, a process that quickly revealed an ever widening web of anticompetitive conspiracy...