Word: plea
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What is most worth saving in the bill? The ban on assault weapons, which won't cost taxpayers a cent. The building of more prisons, which will cut the number of plea bargains and ensure that those who should remain behind bars do so. And most important, the hiring of 100,000 new cops...
...rising tide of Cuban refugees has prompted Florida Gov. Lawton Chiles to declare an "immigration state of emergency," mobilizing the National Guard and state agencies. But Chiles' subsequent plea for federal action and financial assistance got a cool reception in Washington, where Attorney General Janet Reno -- a Floridian herself -- said the Administration was managing the problem "in an orderly way and without disruption." But the federal government may be poised to reverse its 30-year-old Cuban policy: instead of allowing immigrants to stay in the U.S., they may be intercepted or turned back. Short of that, sources tell TIME...
...answered with a simple "not guilty" when asked by Clerk Magistrate Robert F. Shell to enter a plea...
Once again entering a plea of not guilty, O.J. Simpson was arraigned on charges that he stabbed to death his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman last month. The trial was assigned to superior court Judge Lance Ito. Before the arraignment, Simpson offered a $500,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the "real killer or killers," and set up a toll-free number to take tips from the public...
...appointment of Jay Stephens, a former Republican federal prosecutor and a sharp Clinton critic, to investigate the failure of the savings institution, he said he had not attempted to remove Stephens. Nussbaum was followed by the "White House 10" -- high-level Clinton Administration officials, who all copped a plea of no wrongdoing...