- 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...
-
state law
determines whether, and
under what cir****stances, a
defendant may
plead no
contest in
state criminal cases. In
federal court, the
Federal Rules...
- 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...
-
refuse to
answer questions or
otherwise give
testimony against himself". To "
plead the Fifth" is to
refuse to
answer any
question because "the implications...
- In
English law, a beau
pleader is a writ,
whereby it is
provided that no fine
shall be
taken of
anyone in any
court for fair pleading, i.e. for not pleading...
- 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]"...
-
aggravated child abuse of two of Franke's children.
Franke ultimately pleaded guilty to four
counts and was
sentenced to
serve between four and thirty...
-
strategy and
whether to
plead guilty,
accept a plea
agreement or
plead not guilty. This
issue is
dealt with in UK law as "fitness to
plead".
Competency largely...
- that kept him from
losing his home to foreclosure. Her ****ailant
later pleaded guilty to
robbery and ****ault, and was
sentenced to
three to nine years...
