Word: plea
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Earlier this week, Benson dropped this controversial defense, in exchange for a guilty plea on the lesser charge of harassment. "I have long argued that there is no basis for the use of this defense," crowed Brooklyn District Attorney Elizabeth Holtzman, the prosecutor in the case. "The withdrawal of this defense is a signal that PMS is a defense without merit...
...only eight years in prison instead of a possible death sentence. He took the stand last Wednesday in the murder trial of Carthan, but much of his testimony was ruled inadmissible as hearsay, since Hester alone had made all the alleged arrangements with Carthan. The next day a new plea bargain was struck, this one with Hester: for testifying that he and Bolden had killed Granderson on Carthan's orders and for pleading guilty to felonious assault, he would not be prosecuted for murder...
...point man in Congress, to Reaganomics and blamed him for not changing Reagan's mind on the Soviet pipeline sanctions, which are unpopular in an area where some pipeline equipment would have been made. But this mostly Republican district still seems inclined to heed the President's plea for patience and not add Michel's name to Peoria's list of 20,000 unemployed...
...sought, and received from CBS and NBC, free time to reply to Reagan's speech. The choice fell on Michigan Senator Donald Riegle, who is little known nationally. In a hastily prepared 7-min. talk following Reagan's 23-min. address, Riegle derided the President's plea that the nation "stay on course." Asked Riegle: "If you live from paycheck to paycheck, do you feel more secure about your job? If you own a small business, are you feeling more secure? What kind of course is this?" However, like other Democratic spokesmen in recent months, Riegle...
...vote for another dollar, John Winthrop Sears '52, the Republican candidate for governor, decided to take some time off from the campaign last Wednesday night. Speaking in a Kennedy School classroom-organizers feared embarrassingly low attendance and moved the event out of the larger Forum--Sears scrapped his standard plea for votes and talked instead of the frustrations of running for governor...