Word: plea
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...Foster writes, "slicing her from the corner of her mouth to her ear ... Bettie stabbed Haddad four times in the chest, narrowly missing her heart... stabbed the hand eight times, severing the top of Haddad's third finger." When brought to court, "Bettie pleaded not guilty but changed her plea to not guilty by reason of insanity after two California Department of Medical Health doctors testified that she was insane and had confessed to the attack." She was sentenced to 8 1/2 years in Patton. She stayed there until...
...unlikely the proceedings will wrap up before the Inauguration on Jan. 20--which will complicate Obama's task of closing the facility and ending an embarrassing chapter in the war on terrorism. In any event, the military judge, Army Colonel Stephen R. Henley, refused to accept the guilty pleas. He said he needed first to resolve the question of whether a plea--instead of a guilty verdict by a panel of judges--might actually prevent his court from imposing the death penalty. Even martyrdom can hinge on a technicality...
...late, as the facts of the incident float to the surface and the shadow of guilt extends over the men in question in anticipation of their upcoming trial. The outraged families of the dead and injured that day may, it would appear, be vindicated; as part of a plea bargain, one of the guards has confessed that the suspicious sedan and “small arms fire” conjured in the gunners’ debriefings presented nothing of a threat to the convoy. This was less a firefight than a chaotic massacre of civilians, featuring bursts of turret fire...
...human rights cause, was direct in her message to the approximately 20 students in attendance at the event. “I’m in front of you guys who attend a prestigious university and have the power to change the world. I would like to make a plea of all you here today,” Jo said, speaking through a translator. “If North Koreans aren’t refugees, then who is? Who else faces persecution from their government?” Jo continually emphasized the need for a more accurate understanding...
...help the way I am,' says one of the sodomites in this movie. 'Nature played me a dirty trick.' And the scriptwriters, whose psychiatric information is clearly coeval with the statute they dispute, accept this sick-silly self-delusion as a medical fact." The review, headlined "A Plea for Perversion?", appeared in the Feb. 23, 1962, issue of TIME magazine...