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Pring explained that being under house arrest has been difficult for her son and that the “finality” and relief from the legal costs associated with avoiding a third trial had influenced the plea decision...
Natalia Pokrovsky, a former Slavic languages preceptor who taught Pring-Wilson, said she agreed with his decision for a plea bargain. “In a year it will be over. It will be behind him. I think that he did the right thing,” she said...
That trial resulted in a hung jury last month. Middlesex District Attorney Gerard T. Leone had promised to pursue a third trial before the plea bargain was struck...
...pleaded guilty to providing material support for terrorism, and was sentenced to seven years (reduced to nine months for time served), but gave no insight into how a young father of two ended up in the inner sanctum of al-Qaeda's training camps in Afghanistan. Nor did his plea reveal what Hicks underwent or said while at Gitmo...
...brass. Opposite are a lawyer and some business types. It's my turn to say something. I've played this game many times before with Chinese friends, but I'm lost in the whirlwind of jargon. Keen to avoid a bloodbath in the first round, I make a feeble plea for cool heads to prevail...