Example sentences of "plea [prep] [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In most cases it is not the jury who takes this decision but the prosecution , who , with the judge 's agreement , accepts the defendant 's plea of guilty to manslaughter under section 2 . |
| 2 | The practical problems are that there may be no evidence of violence on the woman 's body , which usually means that the case will be a question of the victim 's word against the defendant 's ; this may lead the police to be sceptical of the woman 's complaint , or may incline the prosecutor to accept a plea of guilty to the lesser charge of indecent assault . |
| 3 | The fact is that this is a prominent feature of the existing law , in which there are only two major offences ( rape and indecent assault ) and in which some 42 per cent of those charged with rape have a plea of guilty to indecent assault accepted by the court . |
| 4 | This time the prosecution accepted Kiranjit 's plea of guilty to manslaughter because of diminished responsibility . |
| 5 | The woman pleaded not guilty to his murder , but the Crown rejected her plea of guilty to manslaughter , so there was a contested trial lasting several days , which was fully reported in the popular dailies . |
| 6 | Crime — Double jeopardy — Autrefois convict — Indictment charging murder — Acceptance of plea of guilty to manslaughter — Sentencing adjourned — Proceedings discontinued by nolle prosequi — Defendant charged with murder on second indictment — Whether plea of autrefois convict sustainable |
| 7 | His plea of guilty to manslaughter was accepted by the prosecution with the approval of the judge , who granted defence counsel 's application for an adjournment to call character witnesses in mitigation . |
| 8 | It may be inferred from what the judge said on a later occasion that counsel indicated that the Crown was prepared to accept a plea of guilty to manslaughter and the judge did not dissent from that course . |
| 9 | in whom the power to discontinue any criminal proceedings at any stage before judgment is delivered is vested by section 94(3) ( c ) of the Constitution of Jamaica , considered that the plea of guilty to manslaughter should not have been accepted and decided to discontinue the proceedings in this case in order that the defendant might be charged with the murder on a fresh indictment . |
| 10 | Not only may the defendant be permitted , in the discretion of the court , to change that plea at any time before sentence , but , when a plea of guilty to a lesser offence than that charged has initially been accepted by the prosecutor with the approval of the court , there can , it appears to their Lordships , be no finality in that ‘ acceptance ’ until sentence is passed . |
| 11 | In Reg. v. Emmanuel ( 1981 ) 74 Cr.App.R. 135 where the defendant was charged in the indictment with alternative counts , the judge approved a proposal by the prosecutor to offer no evidence on the more serious charge and to accept a plea of guilty to the less serious . |
| 12 | A plea of guilty to stealing the lorry and trailer was refused by the Advocate Depute , Roderick Macdonald . |
| 13 | The trial judge ruled that this was production ’ and R changed his plea to guilty to the two counts . |
| 14 | Contrast this with the position in jurisdictions where there are three or more degrees of homicide : pleas of guilty to first- and second-degree murders would be less frequent , since there would be the possibility of argument in court ( if no bargain was struck beforehand between prosecution and defence ) , and the defence might succeed in persuading the jury to reduce the degree of the killing . |
| 15 | After the prosecution case is completed , once the judge has ruled that there is a case to answer or where he has not been invited to do so but the case is proceeding , then in our view the prosecution can not be discontinued nor pleas of guilty to lesser charges be accepted without the consent of the judge . |