Word: plead
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chief judge since 1962. A judicial activist, he is best known for his pioneering opinion in the Durham case of 1954, in which he permitted a plea of not guilty by reason of mental illness, thus modernizing the 19th century M'Naghten rule that a criminal defendant could plead insanity only if he did not know right from wrong. In the Durham ruling, the court declared that a man is legally insane if his unlawful act is the "product of mental disease or defect...
...critical period began on March 20, when Watergate Defendant James W. McCord Jr. wrote a letter to Federal District Judge John J. Sirica charging that political pressure had been exerted upon the seven defendants to plead guilty. By the time it ended, with President Nixon's television announcement on April 30 of the resignation of John D. Ehrlichman and H.R. Haldeman, 17 present or former Nixon staffers were under investigation by the Justice Department and a federal grand jury...
...senatorial questioning, a White House counterstrategy seemed to be emerging. It was to blame Dean and Mitchell for the Watergate wiretapping and its concealment. Ehrlichman and Haldeman will likely take the blame for shielding the clandestine activities of the White House team of agents?"the plumbers"?but plead that these were separate from Watergate and necessary in the interests of national security...
JONATHAN, according to its publicity, is "the first anti-fascist vampire movie" - whatever that might be. It could just as easily be the first ecological vampire movie, or the first to plead the case of needy vampires. The work of Hans W. Geissendorfer, a young West German film maker, Jonathan has less relation to the jugular entertain ments of Bela Lugosi and Christopher Lee than to Artaud's theater of cruelty...
...night of the teach-in, March 26, 1971, Cox appeared on the stage in Sanders Theater to plead with the crowd to stop the chanting and clapping which had made it impossible for the pro-war speakers to be heard. "You have the power to disrupt this meeting at any time. But will you please let me speak?" Cox told the noisy audience...