Word: plea
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...trying to bargain for the best deal possible. "This guy wants something for everything he says," an unnamed federal official told the Associated Press. Fortier could plead guilty to lesser charges of having knowledge of the conspiracy and lying to federal officials. One possible stumbling block to a plea bargain is Fortier's perceived weaknesses as a witness. "We can't just put him on the stand," the official said. "The defense will show the CNN tape of him saying McVeigh had nothing to do with it, and the jury will conclude he was lying at least once."Oklahoma Explosion...
Yale's program is pathetic. But some people appear to be quite pleased by Yale's transparent plea for people to reside in New Haven...
...police to be admitted into court proceedings if the police acted in "good faith," that is, if they believed they were acting properly. This measure is perverse even by conservative standards. Instead of constraining police with the strict provisions of search warrants and the Fourth Amendment, a plea of "good faith" could excuse egregious behavior. It is pretty clear that Black urban communities will be jeopardized most if search and seizure regulations are relaxed, since these neighborhoods are already under siege by the police...
...others have been accused of plotting to blow up the U.N. and a federal office building, as well as a bridge and two tunnels that connect Manhattan to New Jersey. In the second week of the trial, one of Rahman's co-defendants unexpectedly changed his plea to guilty and claimed that the sheik had offered the approval of Islamic law for the terror campaign. If the Administration's bill had been in place, it might have made it easier to expel Rahman and his associates. As for the Oklahoma bombing, if it was indeed entirely the work of Americans...
While the job of talking to reporters that Kluttz assumed at times might seem glamorous, in return for being able to make his plea on TV, he says he constantly had to answer the same two questions...