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plea

/plee/US // pli //UK // (pliː) //

抗辩,恳求,诉状,恳请

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an appeal or entreaty: a plea for mercy.
    • : something that is alleged, urged, or pleaded in defense or justification.
    • : an excuse; pretext: He begged off on the plea that his car wasn't working.
    • : Law. an allegation made by, or on behalf of, a party to a legal suit, in support of his or her claim or defense.a defendant's answer to a legal declaration or charge. a plea that admits the truth of the declaration, but alleges special or new matter in avoidance.Obsolete.a suit or action.

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Examples

  • A couple of years later, she was charged with larceny in a separate case from the first shoplifting incident and was offered a plea deal.

  • Following pleas from their governments, tourists from the Czech Republic, Poland, and Slovakia will also be able to enter Hungary if they had already booked a holiday there.

  • In their pleas, they said that without government support, their restaurants would close for good.

  • Unlike most plea agreements, in which the judge remains free to decide the defendant’s sentence, Loughlin’s and Giannulli’s proposed prison terms were binding once accepted.

  • As a result, California in 2014 became the first state to ban the plea.

  • He later accepted a plea deal that put him behind bars for 25 years.

  • Schettino also tried to enter a plea bargain agreement, which ultimately was rejected by the Grosseto court.

  • The mother also made a plea to the violent ones who wreak such havoc.

  • It was an intimate and somber plea, like a parent opening an intervention with a wayward child.

  • He could have gotten away with a greatly reduced fine and no time behind bears if he had simply entered a guilty plea.

  • It is probable he wished to provide written proof of a plea that he was an unwilling agent in the clutch of a mutinous army.

  • Nor can he hold the company on the plea of ignorance by declaring he has not read it, for it is his duty to read the receipt.

  • On the plea that they must hasten if the midday heat were to be avoided, they cut short the halt to less than an hour.

  • In short, insurgency ceased to be a valid plea; if it existed in fact, officially it had become a dead letter.

  • For the popular voice accused him of outrages for which the utmost license of civil war would not furnish a plea.

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