Mr. Baldwin made a deal and entered a guilty plea, while Mr. Snipes went to trial.
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First, what will be the marketplace impact of a guilty plea by a subsidiary of an American bank?
But Army rules prohibit a judge from accepting a guilty plea to charges that could result in a death sentence.
They know that that the prosecutor will bargain down to something far less in order to get a guilty plea.
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An aide to the judge stepped down after alleging that the judge had been pressured to issue a guilty plea.
Recently, we prosecuted and received a guilty plea from a detainee, al-Marri, in federal court after years of legal confusion.
Without that option, he said the defense could seek to enter a guilty plea in a deal to avoid the death penalty.
The Home Office estimates up to 95% of rapes are never reported and only 6.5% result in a guilty plea or verdict.
Extradited to Memphis, he avoided a jury trial - and possibly the electric chair - by entering a guilty plea the following year.
If the prosecution would offer a guilty plea agreement for a sentence of 5 years or less, I think Raj would probably take it.
The judge then tossed out a guilty plea entered before trial by Kimberlee Chase, a TAP sales manager charged with bribing a health maintenance organization.
The judge could order a mental competency evaluation before accepting a guilty plea, but Steinhauser said that's unlikely unless Holmes showed some sign of incompetence.
The IRS brought down the oldest Swiss bank with a guilty plea despite the fact that Wegelin has no U.S. offices and no U.S. presence.
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Prosecutors have rejected a guilty plea and seek the death penalty.
If the FBI and federal prosecutors are running true to form, only a guilty plea and cooperation from the older brother will save the younger sibling.
The authorities have warned that without his co-operation and a guilty plea the case could be treated as terrorism and he could face a long jail sentence.
The fifth suspect, Ariel Tejada, 23, cut a deal with prosecutors to testify against his four cohorts in exchange for a guilty plea to murder and robbery.
He was originally charged with murdering the father-of-three, who bled to death after being stabbed, but the Crown accepted a guilty plea to the lesser charge of culpable homicide.
Jenkins' lawyer, Mark Seifert, says the candidate was not aware of Miller's record--a manslaughter conviction, a guilty plea to attempted murder, and more--but "we don't really care" about it.
Further proof of foul play came when an aide to the judge in the second case stepped down after alleging the judge had been pressured to issue a guilty plea.
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One possible explanation, which I find the most likely, is that they were seeking one more screw to turn on the accused, pushing for a guilty plea and cooperation against others.
He entered a guilty plea in December 2007.
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Last week, prosecutors argued that the defence motion for a guilty plea was not valid as a plea deal, but correspondents say such an agreement could still be reached before the case goes to trial.
The government indicated it might only seek seven years at trial, and was willing to bargain that down to six to eight months in exchange for a guilty plea, a person familiar with the matter said.
Incredibly, this move completely ignored the fact that Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the purported mastermind of the attack and ringleader of the five, was in the midst of discussions with the military judge about entering a guilty plea.
While Gingrich's admission on Saturday--essentially a guilty plea to violations uncovered by the ethics committee's four-panel subcommittee--was clearly an attempt to speed the process, it also reflected a sharp, sudden change of course from his earlier insistence that he did nothing wrong.
Also, over at BP a contrast has been noted between what it sees as the book being thrown at it by the Department of Justice for the oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico - a guilty plea for serious crimes and the prosecution of three executives - and perhaps not such a weighty tome being lobbed at HSBC.
Pohl said he would enter a not guilty plea on Mohammed's behalf, if he refused to enter a plea.
He was released from jail on bond early Monday and hours later entered a not guilty plea.
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