Word: pleadings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...telephone interview last week, Delaney said the posters were intended to criticize the university for attempting to improve campus safety while at the same time admitting a student who had plead no contest to killing her mother, Delaney said in a telephone interview last week...
Starr has a remarkable record of persuading his indictees to turn state's evidence. Nine of the 14 charged so far have pleaded guilty in return for cooperation with the prosecution. Jim McDougal has always taken a feisty stand, but his health is poor and he might theoretically find cooperating an appealing alternative to a stretch behind bars. (Almost all counts of the latest indictment are punishable by up to five years in prison.) TIME has learned from attorney Bobby McDaniel that his client Susan McDougal has refused an offer from Starr to plead guilty to a misdemeanor in return...
...PLEAD NOT GUILTY...
...this murky, deeply troubling incident has yet to be adequately investigated, and the Justice Department could be accused of stonewalling. Members of Congress are legitimately under pressure to examine this incident." Nonetheless, if the hearings are held this fall, many witnesses will likely cite the ongoing criminal investigation and plead the Fifth Amendment. "Specter won't get good testimony and it will be embarrassing for the FBI," Shannon predicts. The Justice investigation probably won't be finished before Christmas...
That left the hapless Bliley to convene a meeting of long-distance lobbyists in the Commerce Committee hearing room on July 13 to convey the grim news. Stunned, the lobbyists began a desperate effort to find someone to whom they could plead their case. "Nobody wants to talk to us," complained a lobbyist for the long-distance coalition early in the week. "Nobody wants to negotiate. Something is fishy here...