Word: pleadings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Blacks protested that authorities were moving too hastily against Jones, the first black superintendent in Dade County his tory, and Barnes, who is also black. But last week both were suspended from their jobs without pay and indicted for second-degree grand theft. They plan to plead not guilty. If convicted, they face maximum penalties of five years in prison and $10,000 fines. Jones, who had hitherto received high marks from the school board, and Barnes, an educator for twelve years, may also face the prospect of careers go ing down the drain...
...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...