Under the low dark clouds of northern Uganda's rainy season, the leaders of the al-Wahl(ph) refugee camp meet to plead their case to a delegation of UN and US officials.
Mr Ono, meanwhile, had agreed readily to the request to appear, despite having poor English and a harder case to plead.
With occasional exceptions, cooperating witnesses often plead guilty at the outset of a case, but their sentencing is put off until after the trials and sentencing of non-cooperating defendants.
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So she built a prototype, had it tested in academia and even snuck into a New York toy fair to plead her case.
As the hours evaporated, Microsoft chairman BILL GATES asked for a final session in which to plead his case for allowing Windows 98 to be marketed without any Federal Government objections.
Slavers could count on the Archbishop of Canterbury to defend them before God, and on politicians, like the young William Gladstone, himself the son of a plantation-owner, to plead their case in Parliament.
Wrestling now has to plead its case to the IOC to be included as a provisional sport in St.
He has hired a prominent international lawyer, Robert Amsterdam, to plead his case.
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The government, as they do in every case, discussed possible agreements to have a defendant plead guilty.
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In Russia's case, the answer is to plead poverty, negotiate a thumping write-down of one chunk of its foreign debt, and start talks on another.
Deutch had reached an agreement with the Justice Department to plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge and pay a fine, but before the case was filed, President Clinton pardoned him.
It's not often that journalists are invited to appear before lawmakers to plead their case, so Matthew Cooper of Time magazine could be excused for seeming a bit uncomfortable in the formal hearing room of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
After winning a court reprieve after the SCHSL tossed Goose Creek out once already, the school got to plead its case to the authority in an open session.
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In a 1992 case involving the Gambino crime family and the garment industry, Spitzer let the defendants plead to lesser charges and avoid jail time in exchange for getting out of the business entirely.
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