All of the pleas of not guilty by each of the accused were accepted for these charges.
He refused to plea and the court entered pleas of not guilty for him on all counts.
Two of the four men accused of killing missing financial adviser Lynda Spence have had their pleas of not guilty to murder accepted.
Smith and Parker had their pleas of not guilty to murder accepted by the Crown when they admitted assaulting Ms Spence and attempting to defeat the ends of justice.
Mr Lawyer's plea comes as the 'domino effect' of guilty pleas gathers pace.
Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for Gosnell and have already obtained guilty pleas from eight of his former staffers.
Guilty pleas are the name of the game at Main Justice, as discussed in my previous post.
The Crown accepted their guilty pleas to the charge of culpable homicide.
In March, the Department of Justice threw in the towel by dropping the charges against those accused and even threw out 3 guilty pleas that they had received during the prosecution of case.
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They spoke only to confirm their names and enter not guilty pleas to the single count of murder.
The convictions cap a four and a half year investigation, which yielded 16 guilty pleas from ex-executives of Enron, including former CFO Andrew Fastow and former Chief Accounting Officer Richard Causey .
Six of the men have entered not guilty pleas, two are to plead at a later date while another man refused to enter a plea.
In the next three years the contracted defender tried only one felony case in front of a jury, while entering guilty pleas in 213 other cases.
At the earlier hearing the Crown had accepted not guilty pleas by Bufton, 33, of Ty Gwynt, Llanarth, Usk, Monmouthshire, who had faced three charges in connection with the christening.
Most are dealt with by lay magistrates in local courts, capable of imposing prison sentences of up to two years, or involve guilty pleas.
Loughner had been facing more than 50 federal charges, and the remaining offenses will be dropped in exchange for the guilty pleas if Loughner is sentenced within the terms of the plea agreement, according to the written agreement filed in court.
These cases always start out the same way with proclamations of innocence only to be followed by apologies and guilty pleas.
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Jail time for individual offenders, not just guilty pleas, might well serve the best reputational interests of the financial industry as well as the government.
He said he had reduced the amount of time Wilkinson will serve in prison due to his guilty pleas, his character references and his work ethic.
On the opposite side of the argument, some prison reformers worried that rewarding guilty pleas further might put undue pressure on innocents to throw in the towel.
In the past, guilty pleas were deemed too perilous as parent institutions could face loss of license, endangering the organizational props on which financial stability depends.
The lawyer said that by using that strategy, the defense apparently hopes the government will feel victorious about the guilty pleas Manning has entered and won't go through the effort of a trial.
Just have a look at hedge fund biggie Raj Rajaratnam, blithley protesting his innocence of criminality in the biggest inside information trial ever, despite 19 guilty pleas by others caught in his dishonest web.
The force said more than 90% of cases pursued, using evidence from the cameras, resulted in early guilty pleas.
The guilty pleas entered Wednesday were the first stemming from a two-year investigation of a rebate program at Pilot Flying J, the company controlled by the family of Gov. Bill Haslam and Browns owner Jimmy Haslam.
John Philpotts, defending, said Cassidy was frightened of going into prison for the first time, and deserved maximum credit for his guilty pleas as he was clearly remorseful.
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