plea 的定义
- 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.
plea 近义词
begging request
excuse, defense
更多plea例句
- 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.