Word: pleaded
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...after years of pain killer addiction, Limbaugh was charged with "doctor shopping" for prescriptions. He plead not guilty but agreed to go through rehab if the charges were dismissed...
...conspirator in their anarchy; they broke the "fourth wall" as blithely as if it were a cardboard prop, and incorporated their famous arguments into gag lyrics for their duets. Their jokes became instant catchphrases, like the running gag where Jerry would hand Dean an ice cream cone and then plead, almost bray, "But doooooon' lick...
...protect it.” At the Alaskan retreat, the scientists and evangelicals signed a document— “Urgent Call to Action: Scientists and Evangelical Unite To Protect Creation”— and since then, Chivian and Cizik have been traveling the country to plead for unity in the fight against global climate change. Chivian stressed that global climate change was more than just an environmental issue. “Many people do not realize that climate change is a public health problem,” Chivian said. “Human beings...
...program kicked in once a case was completed and entered the monetary penalty phase. Prior to the program, SEC prosecutors would negotiate directly with wrongdoers, say, asking for $1 million in penalties and then negotiating down to $500,000. But since the program started, prosecutors had to first plead their case for penalties to SEC commissioners, who would negotiate up or down for wrongdoers in advance of direct negotiations for penalties...
Secondly, the hypothetical proposed by the column, that police could “plead ‘negligent’ as a cover-up for violations of individuals’ rights in a variety of circumstances…” is not accurate, according to the finding in Herring. Here, the court allowed the exception to the exclusionary rule because the officers that arrested eefendant Herring did so based on mistakes made by other law-enforcement officers, not the arresting officers themselves. They acted in good faith based on information they received from colleagues, which happened to be incorrect...