Word: pleas
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Fortas and Clifford hurried to the Star. "They made what I would regard as a plea to have us not break the story," said Star Editor Newbold Noyes. "I agreed to go along at that time." Clifford and Fortas next called on Washington Daily News Editor John O'Rourke. "There was no pressure," recalled O'Rourke. "I agreed not to break the story-provided it wasn't in print elsewhere. But it couldn't be kept secret." The lawyers paid a third call, this one on the Washington Post's editors. Both Fortas and Clifford...
Bargain Justice. Gebhardt's amazing escape from prosecution has shocked Miami and roused a hot debate over the uses of "copping a plea," that familiar bargaining system between accused criminal and District Attorney that governs so much of U.S. criminal justice. Never declared illegal or unconstitutional, it is often the D.A.'s only means of solving crime or showing mercy, yet it has been abused by D.A.'s more interested in convictions than justice...
...goal is to do away with the need for a lengthy trial by producing a fast guilty plea-a "cop-out." And, after weeks in a county jail, many a criminal defendant is more than willing to plead guilty, to settle for a judge's quick sentence rather than insist upon his constitutional right to trial by jury. To spur the copout, prosecutors may offer a variety of guilty pleas to lesser charges...
Frank J. Zeo, executive director of the Massachusetts Federation of Taxpayers, said yesterday afternoon that his group planned no official endorsement of the fight against the Mem Drive underpasses. He added that he will write Bernays, suggesting that he take his plea to the Governor's office...
Mission to Peking. While the prisoner in Cairo was getting the headlines, the conference in Cairo droned on. Nasser made a relatively reasonable plea that "peace in our time is indivisible." Indonesia's Sukarno, however, demanded "not coexistence but confrontation against Western imperialism." Most of the delegates went numbly along with Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah, who blamed foreign plots rather than his own mismanagement for the fact that independence has not proved paradise...