Word: pleaded
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...stage to promote al-Qaeda's cause and perhaps even send coded messages to other terrorists. At the same time, Moussaoui's fired defense lawyers, still on the case as standby counsel, worried that he would fashion his own noose. As the government filed revised indictments, Moussaoui tried to plead no contest or even guilty before Brinkema patiently explained that he would be confessing to all the charges if he did so. Instead, he declared his allegiance to al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden while denying any role in 9/11. "I had nothing to do with Sept. 11," he said...
During his tenure as HUD secretary he was probed by an independent counsel about allegations that he lied to FBI agents about payments to his ex-mistress. He plead guilty to a misdemeanor in 1999 and was pardoned by President Clinton in the last month of his administration...
...high-concept '60s sitcom not involving a genie is a reality show in the making. The two blonds are clearly no strangers to privation, having about 0.01% body fat apiece, but they soon find rural life harder than Pilates. Given $50 to buy groceries, they go over budget and plead for a break from the cashier, who tells them, "This isn't a soup kitchen." Asks Richie: "What does that mean, 'soup kitchen'?" Later, Hilton is stumped to hear of a thing called Wal-Mart. ("Is it, like, they sell wall stuff...
...religious convictions may or may not have cooled other passions. San Diego County court records show that, several years ago, he was twice charged with soliciting a prostitute, once in August 1996 and again in April 1997, TIME has learned. In the first misdemeanor, he was allowed to plead guilty to a lesser charge on condition of entering an AIDS education program and paying $400 in fines and restitution, documents show. The second time, according to court records, Aulaqi pleaded guilty to soliciting a prostitute and was sentenced to three years' probation, fined $240 and ordered to perform 12 days...
...says A is mad: that he mistakenly believed his wife had died in an earthquake, and to humor him B pretended to be another woman, whom he then married. You're skipping this paragraph, but my pleasure in recalling this production must overrule your bored befuddlement. The disputants plead their respective cases: individually in Act One, then together in Act Two, then with the mysterious wife at the climax...