- A
special pleader was a
historical legal occupation. The practitioner, or "special
pleader" in
English law
specialised in
drafting "pleadings", in modern...
-
fitness to
plead is the
capacity of a
defendant in
criminal proceedings to
comprehend the
course of
those proceedings. The
concept of
fitness to
plead also...
- offense, the
court must
proceed in the same
manner as if the
defendant had
pleaded guilty. A plea of no
contest to a
felony offense requires the court's consent...
- Look up plea,
plead,
pleaded, pled, guilty, or not
guilty in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In law, a plea is a defendant's
response to a
criminal charge...
- (i.e., deny all or some of the
facts pleaded) or
confess and
avoid it (i.e.,
admit the
facts pleaded but
plead new ones that
would dispel their effect)...
- child.
Daniel Defoe's Moll
Flanders includes a
character who
successfully pleaded her
belly despite being "no more with
child than the
judge that
tried [her]"...
- of the
federal question jurisdiction statute is now
known as the well-
pleaded complaint rule. The Mottleys,
Erasmus and Annie, were a
husband and wife...
-
refuse to
answer questions or
otherwise give
testimony against himself". To "
plead the Fifth" is to
refuse to
answer any
question because "the implications...
- manslaughter.
Halls agreed to
plead guilty to the
charge of the
negligent use of a
deadly weapon. On
February 23, 2023,
Baldwin pleaded not guilty, and on April...
- to
emotionally damage her was to take away one of her children.
Paris pleaded guilty in
juvenile court to
capital murder, and was
given the
maximum sentence...
