Posts Tagged ‘plea’

Plea deal in lock-in-sock beatdown of songbird 

A Brooklyn bully admitted Friday to using a padlock stuffed inside a sock to pummel her talent show rival and was given a lenient plea deal — 10 days in jail, rather than as much as two years.

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Giffords says goodbye with a plea for civility (AP)

This video image provided by House Television shows Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz. on the floor of the House on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012. Giffords resigned from the House on Wednesday amid tears, tributes and standing ovations, more than a year after she was gravely wounded by a would-be assassin. (AP Photo/House Television)AP – The applause rolled through the big chamber, growing ever louder as hundreds of Republicans and Democrats suddenly realized Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was back in the House. But this time she had come to say goodbye.


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Plea deal for Liu money man?

Manhattan federal prosecutors disclosed Friday that they are in plea discussions with a John Liu fund-raiser under arrest for allegedly funneling illegal contributions to the controller’s campaign.

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Dharun Ravi, suspected of spying on gay roommate at Rutgers, rejects plea deal

The ex-Rutgers University student accused of spying on his gay roommate with a webcam rejected a plea deal from prosecutors Friday. Dharun Ravi turned down an offer that would have kept him out of jail and attempted to prevent his deportation back to India.

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Winston Cox, thief in Bklyn hair salon, cops plea 20 years  

A Brooklyn punk whose robbery attempt at a hair salon was foiled by a sharp-shooting off-duty officer copped a plea Tuesday that will keep him locked up for 20 years.

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Supreme Court denies final Troy Davis plea

The U.S. Supreme Court denied a last-minute plea from the lawyers of convicted Georgia cop killer Troy Davis on Wednesday night, clearing the way for his execution.

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Ga high court rejects plea to stop Davis execution (AP)

Lawyers for Troy Davis, Stephen Marsh and Danielle Garten, in car, are turned away at the Georgia Diagnostic Prison Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2011 as they tried to gain access to give a polygraph test to Troy Davis before he is scheduled to be executed Wednesday night. Davis, who has always maintained his innocence, sits on death row for the 1989 murder of off-duty Savannah Police Officer Mark Allen MacPhail.  Supporters of Davis are urging Savannah's top prosecutor to intervene with just hours to spare before Davis' scheduled execution.(AP Photo/Atlanta Journal-Constitution, John Spink)   MARIETTA DAILY OUT; GWINNETT DAILY POST OUTAP – Troy Davis, the condemned inmate who convinced hundreds of thousands of people but not a single court of his innocence, waited to be executed Wednesday as his supporters held vigils outside Georgia’s death row and as far away as London and Paris.


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