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All we're trying to do is get her a fair trial, and we plead with the House to pass this bill to give Terri a chance.

Bob Schindler

In pleading not guilty, he has declared to the world that he is innocent. He has declared that intends to fight the charges in the indictment, and he has declared that he wants to clear his good name ... he wants a jury trial. We do not intend to fight this in the press.

Ted Wells

He would plead guilty to doing that. He very much believed in a crusading, if fair and accurate, newspaper. He once made a convocation address in which he said there was no such thing as objectivity.

John Honderich

Ignorance of the law excuses no man: Not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to refute him.

John Selden

With respect, your honor, I plead not guilty.

Lewis Libby

All we can do is plead with them to do the right thing. This city is secure. Their property is going to be okay.

Sherry Landry

We plan on pleading guilty. He has accepted responsibility. He feels terrible for what he has done, especially to the organization.

Tim Woodward

The window fine on these can be anywhere as high as $307. That fine is assed by a municipal court, so the people will have a chance to go up and talk to a judge, plead their case.

Alex Comfort

It was really hard to pick out the people that we had to take, ... A lot of the elderly that we picked up were begging and pleading for us to go back and get their families. That was the hard part.

James Swanson

You can plead guilty, but you can't plead death. You can request it.

Richard Dieter

We have to plead our own cause. Too long others have spoken for us.

George Curry

His truck was all shot at. He saw his friend being dragged out and being stoned first. And the guy is yelling, pleading for his life. Then they shot him in the back of the head.

Joanne Bradshaw

I know that someone knows where Laci is -- and I'm pleading with you, please, please let her come home to us. You can send an anonymous letter to the police department telling them where she is or make an anonymous call to the police tip line at 209-342-6166.

Sharon Rocha

If you've got 13 felonies, and negotiations are, you have to plead to at least one, which one do you plead to? ... The one the Supreme Court can't even agree is a crime.

Stephen Meyer

There were no wink-and-a-nod agreements in the backroom. The fact that they chose to plead guilty just shows the strength of the government's case.

David Boyd

We plead with the kidnappers to release the men so that they may be reunited with their families.

Alfred Mutua

Obviously on municipal charges, the wise thing is to plead guilty and do your community service, even if you haven't committed the offense.

Bob White

It's a very disingenuous, misleading pleading.

James Wallace

The DCCC has set the precedent for returning contributions. They have said that the contributions must be from a person convicted or pleading guilty, and that the contribution must have been given in the current election cycle. None of this meets that criteria set by John Lapp at DCCC.

Justin Brasell

I expect to plead not for the slave only, but for suffering humanity everywhere. Especially do I mean to labor for the elevation of my sex.

Lucy Stone

I am not a person who will cling to power. Considering the totality of circumstances and with the Governor pleading inability to grant more time, I have decided to resign.

Dharam Singh

He should have never plead guilty, we also think that the sentencing is too harsh.

Gary Grant

By pleading guilty to these charges, our father has once again sacrificed his own interests for us. He knows that this trial, with the media attention that has accompanied it, would place our lives in the public eye, denying us any privacy whatsoever.

Lisa Martin

Mark and Luke are living rebuttals to the claim that embryos are not people, ... We plead with you not to fund their slaughter.

John Borden

We're pleading with you. Come with us and let's make this thing something the midcoast can be proud of.

Joe Brooks

That just means the door is shut. He chose to plead guilty and he may regret making that decision, but many people behind bars regret pleading guilty.

Joshua Dressler

If you charge him with that, then he can go to court and plead guilty to a misdemeanor and you can't charge him again.

Darrell Debusk

People were begging and pleading, We are so excited to be rolling this year. Things are a little different, but we're rolling.

Sharon Alexander

We'll try to plead our case. If it doesn't work out, fine, we'll deal with it. But we at least want to see if something can be worked out.

Jerry Stewart

Any news leading to her discovery would be most helpful, so we are pleading to the public so that we can have some ideas of other places to search.

Melina Smith

In the last two years, the government has painstakingly climbed ladders, gotten different people along the way to plead guilty in order to go after someone at the higher rung. We're now at the top of the ladder.

Jacob Frenkel

It will never do to plead sin as an excuse for sin, or to attempt to justify sinful acts by pleading that we have an evil heart. This instead of being a valid apology, is the very ground of our condemnation.

Archibald Alexander

He was concerned that without a judge playing an active role, a defendant might plead guilty to something substantially more or less than he was really guilty of in return for a lesser sentence.

Kate Stith

We considered it recently, it was time for me to plead guilty ... Thought it was the best way to move forward and get things behind us.

Mark Mangelsdorf

People are pleading with them, and the pleas are beginning to reach them.

Ekiyor Welson

Abu Ali intends to plead not guilty to all of these charges. He expects to have a fair trial at which he will be vindicated.

Edward Macmahon