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...strip away the excitement of the story. Charles II's father was at war with his own subjects by the time Charles was nine. When Charles was 11, he was sent to the House of Lords to plead for the life of the Earl of Strafford, the King's friend and servant. Parliament condemned Strafford anyway, and he was executed for high treason. At 12, he saw his first battle. At it, he left his father, who was soon captured by the Parliamentary troops, and never saw him again. When he was 19, his father was executed for high treason...
...decision, the U.S. Supreme Court recognized that infiltration by undercover agents is "one of the only practicable means of detection" in certain kinds of crime, notably drug transactions. In general, the court has ruled that as long as a defendant is "predisposed" to commit a crime, he cannot plead entrapment-that he was lured into breaking the law against his will or without his knowledge. An entrapment plea can be successful only if a law-enforcement agency has pressured or induced him to commit the crime. Thus the defendant must demonstrate that he would not have broken the law without...
...without males. Or it might be an evolutionary hangover from the good old male-female days. Since stories about animal sexuality are inevitably drawn into human sexual politics these days, Crews may be called to task by radical lesbians for his hetero chauvinism. If so, he will have to plead guilty: his team is currently treating eggs with hormones in hopes of producing the species' first males...
Fisher called for the Iranians to release the hostages and to plead their case before the International Court in The Hague...
...reputation for callousness. A year ago he hired an attorney with his own money to defend a young cab driver charged with murder. The cabbie's brother, a security guard at B.U., had told Silber of the situation: the court-appointed attorney was trying to convince the defendant to plead guilty in exchange for only a 20-year sentence. Outraged at this, Silber retained a different attorney and the man was later acquitted. The second attorney, George V. Higgins of Boston, says Silber paid a fee of more than $15,000 from his own pocket...