Word: plea
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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James W. Lawson, Lee's attorney, said his client would voluntarily surrender and enter a plea of not guilty...
...B.C.C.I. Plea Bargain...
...unravels with it. The person becomes his parts -- some working, some defective through no fault of his own. Will it become incumbent upon society to submit all killers to a brain scan? Would that not be fairer than having psychiatrists battle in court over the merits of an insanity plea...
...Buck Naked, which ends the record with a stirring plea for a return to innocence, that sums up the cathartic quality of David Byrne. Byrne's head and heart seem to collaborate perfectly as he sings, "Running naked like the day I was born/ We're all naked in the land where I come from/ I'm a long long way from New York City now/ We're all naked if you turn us inside out." Combining giddiness with gravity, David Byrne manages to make angst...
Ties had already been strained by a battle of wills between Clinton Administration officials and Prosecutor-General De Greiff, who had pursued plea-bargain deals with major traffickers, offering them as little as three years in prison in exchange for guilty pleas. U.S. officials denounced the program, and in response cut off a scheme in which they shared evidence with Colombian prosecutors. More recently, the Clinton Administration suspended an operation in which AWACS surveillance aircraft identified for Colombian law enforcement small planes thought to be carrying drugs; in what was seen as a conciliatory move, the U.S. last week announced...