Word: pleads
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...even went to Japan to plead with CB makers there to trim production, but to no avail. Reports Andros: "They thought I was misjudging the marketplace and decided to increase production instead of cutting back...
...disagree with that assessment, there is no consensus over any proposed reform. University of Colorado Law Professor Albert Alschuler argues that determinate sentencing may only force more plea bargaining; with judges and parole boards no longer empowered to mete out mercy, defendants will be under greater pressure to plead guilty to lesser offenses. Concludes Alschuler: "The big winners will be the prosecutors." Chicago's Morris is worried that state legislatures, with their susceptibility to demagoguery on a sensitive issue like crime, "can't be trusted" to set humane sentences...
...energy program deep into hostile territory last week, traveling to Houston to address a meeting of 3,000 oil and gas executives. They represented the industry that President Carter last month accused of plotting "the greatest rip-off in history," and Schlesinger's mission seemed to be to plead for peace and understanding. He did-but only to a point. Denying the industry's basic complaint that the Administration's complex plan does not offer enough in the way of incentives for increased fuel exploration, the Energy Secretary insisted that the program would bring on "a golden...
Bell took the threat seriously. He told Williams that if Helms would plead nolo contendere (no contest)-in reality an admission of guilt-to the misdemeanors, the Justice Department would support Helms' insistence that his accumulated federal pension rights be protected, and would recommend that he not be imprisoned. This bargain was intended to ensure that no national secrets would be endangered at a trial. At the same time, it would demonstrate that the Carter Administration is in accord with Congress that even CIA chiefs are accountable to both the public...
...without much risk. Prosecutors will usually allow arrested smugglers to plead guilty to misdemeanors, even in states that make buttlegging a felony...