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...sentence is also usually lessened when the defendant plea bargains, as Driscoll did, she said...
Before missiles started flying, letters were flying. On Aug. 22 the leader of a Kurdish faction penned a "Your Excellency" plea to Saddam Hussein, the man who gassed 5,000 Kurds to death eight years ago, inviting the Iraqi dictator's army to enter the Kurds' safe haven to knock out another Kurdish faction. On Aug. 28 Bill Clinton dispatched a stern diplomatic demarche to Baghdad warning Saddam not to try any such thing. Three days later he fired off another "don't go" advisory, and White House advisers faxed a four-page decision memo recommending military retaliation...
...Jesse L. Jackson finished his emotional plea for party unity, delegates leapt to their feet in applause...
...been accused of a crime and was not even mentioned when three rival companies agreed to settle price-fixing charges last week. But the Justice Department clearly had its sights on Archer-Daniels-Midland, the politically powerful Illinois grain processor, when it accepted sweeping plea-bargain deals with three companies accused of fixing the price of the feed additive lysine. The companies--Ajinomoto and Kyowa Hakko Kogyo of Japan, and the U.S. arm of South Korea's Sewon--agreed to cooperate with prosecutors and pay a total of $20 million in fines to settle the case...
Berlin cites domestic and European studies in which the rate fell below 15% when participants were chemically castrated. Such figures attracted California assemblyman Bill Hoge, who, dismayed when McQuay's plea was denied, introduced the California bill. Hoge talks of prevention, not punishment. "We're trying to stop the child molester from striking again, period," he says...