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1Plea bargain — A plea bargain (also plea agreement, plea deal or copping a plea) is an agreement in a criminal case whereby the prosecutor offers the defendant the opportunity to plead guilty, usually to a lesser charge or to the original criminal charge with a …
2plea — / plē/ n [Anglo French plei plai legal action, trial, from Old French plait plaid, from Medieval Latin placitum, from Latin, decision, decree, from neuter of placitus, past participle of placēre to please, be decided] 1 a: an allegation of fact… …
3Plea — For the pygmy backswimmer genus, see Plea (insect). In legal terms, a plea is simply an answer to a claim made by someone in a civil or criminal case under common law using the adversary system. Colloquially, a plea has come to mean the assertion …
4Plea in bar — Bar Bar (b[aum]r), n. [OE. barre, F. barre, fr. LL. barra, W. bar the branch of a tree, bar, baren branch, Gael. & Ir. barra bar. [root]91.] 1. A piece of wood, metal, or other material, long in proportion to its breadth or thickness, used as a… …
5League Against Cruel Sports — The League Against Cruel Sports (formerly abbreviated to LACS) is an animal welfare organisation that campaigns against all blood sports including bull fighting, fox hunting and hare coursing. It also campaigns to ban the manufacture, sale and… …
6Soiled Dove Plea — A speech delivered by the attorney Temple Lea Houston in 1899 in Woodward, Oklahoma, considered by many trial attorneys to be the perfect closing argument. The accused prostitute was scheduled to be tried for prostitution one morning and the… …
7Florence Ellinwood Allen — (March 23, 1884 September 12, 1966) was an American judge. She was the first woman to serve on a state supreme court and one of the first two women to serve as a federal judge. Early lifeFlorence Allen was born on March 23, 1884 in Salt Lake City …
8The Black Hole of Auschwitz — Infobox Book name = The Black Hole of Auschwitz title orig = L asimmetria e la vita translator = Sharon Wood image caption = Paperback cover published by Polity. author = Primo Levi edited by Marco Belpoliti illustrator = country = UK publisher …
9David Hicks — For the American chaplain, see David Hicks (chaplain). For the British interior designer, see David Nightingale Hicks. David Hicks David Hicks outside his family home in Salisbury Park, South Australia Born 7 August 1975 (1975 08 07)… …
10Henry de Bracton — was appointed to the coram rege, the advisory council of Henry III of England Henry of Bracton, also Henry de Bracton, also Henrici Bracton, or Henry Bratton also Henry Bretton (ca. 1210–68) was an English jurist. He is famous now for his… …
