Word: pleads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...allegedly bought the murder rifle; and Jimmy's wife Elizabeth, 28, who is charged with covering up the crime. Jimmy will be tried separately later. The final defendant was to have been the youngest Chagra brother, Joseph, 35, an El Paso lawyer. But last month he agreed to plead guilty to the murder-conspiracy charge and testify against Harrelson in return for a ten-year maximum sentence and the right not to testify against his brother...
...city manager's report says all the city can do is plead with the businesses in Cambridge for a few crumbs from their table. I don't believe that," Sullivan said. The employment committee will hold a hearing on the voluntary jobs proposal tonight...
...building to the ground. The government reacted to the disturbances with strong hints that Solidarity might soon be banned outright. Government Spokesman Urban told foreign reporters that "the entire leadership of Solidarity cannot be considered as worthy partners for negotiations." From now on, he said, the regime would plead its case directly with the workers, whose "hearts and minds," he claimed, were now closer to the government's policies than to Solidarity's leaders, including Walesa...
...afternoon, and it was now around 6:30 p.m. Prosecutor Warren Von Schuch was worried. As he later put it, "The longer a [jury] panel is out, the worse shape we're in." And so he proposed a deal to Seigler's attorneys: their client would plead guilty to first-degree murder and robbery and receive a 60-year prison term, with 20 years suspended...
...echoed in the House, proceeds along the lines of an entertaining but abject logic: STOP ME BEFORE I KILL AGAIN. The sponsors of the amendment to mandate balanced federal budgets have flocked to the Constitution, as to the Wizard of Oz, to ask for a superego, to plead for the discipline that they have been unable to enforce upon themselves. It is an evasive and unworthy and essentially political exercise. The oldest living constitution in the world should not be dragged onstage to perform in such charades. It is undignified...