Word: plea
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...House colleagues were increasingly tense about doing the same for him. The problem was timing. The House is scheduled to re-elect the Speaker on Jan. 7, and the ethics committee is scrambling to finish its work before that. While Gingrich's admission on Saturday--essentially a guilty plea to violations uncovered by the ethics committee's four-panel subcommittee--was clearly an attempt to speed the process, it also reflected a sharp, sudden change of course from his earlier insistence that he did nothing wrong...
...Atlantan Ted Miltiades watched the FBI's plea for help with its Olympic-bombing investigation on TV last week, he had a shock of recognition: the bomb had exploded directly behind a fan-shaped Greek statue he had been photographing only hours before the deadly blast. Miltiades went back to his photos and found a rear shot of a white man in khaki shorts wearing a knapsack that looked like the one the FBI said had contained the bomb. He called the FBI's hotline, and within minutes an agent was at his door to whisk the picture away...
...years of abuse by her deceased husband. "I don't think this woman poses a threat," Dr. Voltin says. "[She] felt backed against the wall." It is too late to sway the court, however: in October Kay gave up her right to further appeal in return for a reduced plea to second-degree murder...
...most compelling series of "nos" came during the exchanges about domestic violence. As Petrocelli wove for the jury a narrative of Simpson's life and times with Nicole, he hammered away at their tempestuous relationship--one that resulted in calls to police and a no-contest plea to spousal battery in 1989. With an enormous blow-up of Nicole's face, cut and purpled with bruises, looming on a huge screen behind the former football star, the lawyer quizzed him about numerous other incidents in which witnesses say Nicole was hit by her husband. And Petrocelli walked Simpson through some...
...week's end, Baby Boy Grossberg was being reclaimed from the morgue by his grandparents, who will name him before burying him. Defense lawyers are urging us not to rush to judgment, which is surely a prelude to a rush to explain and a plea to excuse. One attorney said, "Brian, the individual, the human being, the nice, normal kid, has been displayed, and I think that it gives the public a different perspective, and I think it's helpful." Helpful to whom? Not to a moral life. There are monsters among us who, with wealthy parents and a battalion...