Word: pleas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chamber to confront Imperiale's vigilantes attending a routine council session. When a phonograph played the national anthem, the Negroes refused to stand and the whites cried: "Throw the bastards out!" Jones, arguing against the proposed use of police dogs in the ghetto, told the council: "Our rational plea to this community is to avoid the emotional issue of dogs. Whether you own Newark or not, nobody can sell ashes...
...laws and driving a horse and buggy if it were not for that great institution known as American credit." Though they gulped, most old-line Byrdmen went along. The assembly (in which sat a symbol of change-the first Negro member since 1891) also approved Godwin's plea for a commission to revise the state's revered but outmoded constitution...
...insanity plea, said the court, "is neither an express nor an implied ad mission of present illness, and acquittal rests only on a reasonable doubt of sani ty at the time of the offense. It is true that persons acquitted by reason of in sanity have committed criminal acts and that this fact may tend to show that they meet the requirements for commitment, namely illness and dangerousness. But it does not justify total abandonment of the procedures used in civil commitment proceedings to determine whether these same requirements have been satisfied...
...Bundy's real defense against tyranny lies in his reliance on the good sense and liberal values of men actually wielding power. He constantly qualified his plea for more government by adding "for freedom." He urged future administrators to avoid arrogance and never to lose their "sympathy" for the general public...
...refrained from carrying out the sentences. Then, two weeks ago, Rhodesia's high court ruled that the noose could be used, since the Smith regime was a de facto government. British Prime Minister Harold Wilson's Labor government thereupon asked the Queen to intercede, but her plea was rejected by the Rhodesian high court. "Her Majesty is quite powerless in this matter," said Rhodesian Chief Justice Sir Hugh Beadle, who had hitherto been known as a "Queen's man" for arguing that Rhodesia must maintain residual links with the Crown...