单词 | plead not guilty |
释义 | > as lemmasto plead not guilty a. intransitive. to plead not guilty: to enter a plea of not guilty. So to plead guilty: to enter a plea of guilty; (gen.) to admit responsibility for an action.to plead guilty appears later, and evidently arose in imitation of plead not guilty. Guilty is technically not a plea, but a confession. Blackstone Comm. IV. 324, 332, 399 never uses plead guilty, but writes of the prisoner confessing the fact. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > pleading > plead [verb (intransitive)] > plead guilty or not guilty to plead not guilty1454 α. β. 1454 Rolls of Parl. V. 239/2 In that Court..the seid Thomas wilfully appered, and..to the said Bille and Action aunswered and pleted not gylty.1583 Sir T. Smith's De Republica Anglorum ii. xxiii. 78 If he [sc. the prisoner] pleade there not guiltie, the Clarke asketh him howe he will be tryed, and telleth him he must saie, by God and the Countrie, for these be the words formall of this triall after Inditement. 1660 Exact Accompt Trial Regicides 19 If you have any thing of Justification, plead Not guilty. 1681 Arraignm.,Tryal & Condemnation S. Colledge 6 Cl. of Cr. You must plead to the Court, Guilty or not Guilty. 1704 Boston News-let. 19 June 1/2 The said Quelch was brought to the Bar, being charged with Nine several Articles of Piracy and Murder whereupon he had been Arraigned and Pleaded, Not Guilty. 1724 ‘C. Johnson’ Gen. Hist. Pyrates iv. 79 All the Prisoners arraigned, pleaded Not Guilty. 1806 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 15 60 I may..be represented as discouraging experiments. To this I must, in some measure, plead guilty. 1827 J. Bentham Rationale Judicial Evid. II. iii. xv. 316 Where it happens to a prisoner to answer in the affirmative,—in appropriate language to plead guilty,—if he insists on it, the general understanding seems to be that he has a right to have such his plea recorded: in which case there is a necessary end of the trial, and the verdict follows of course. 1875 Judicature Act O. xix. r. 16 Nothing in these Rules contained shall affect the right of any defendant to plead not guilty by statute. 1892 ‘D. Donovan’ In Grip of Law 58 When called upon to plead, she pled not guilty in a firm clear voice. 1933 D. Thomas Let. Nov. (1987) 38 I plead guilty to bathos, but offer in excuse the fact that I copied out the poem as soon as I had written it. 1966 Dumfries. Standard 2 Feb. 1/3 Duncan Wright, of Greenholm, Lochmaben, who pled not guilty of resetting about 20 blackfaced ewes, and two lambs stolen from John McConnell's farm at Dunscore. 1994 I. Botham My Autobiogr. xiv. 277 As he was in the toilet at the time the incident happened, there was no way he should accept the charges, let alone plead guilty. to plead (a person) not guilty b. transitive. To enter a plea on behalf of (a person). Chiefly in to plead (a person) guilty, to plead (a person) not guilty. Also reflexive. Now chiefly U.S. ΚΠ 1838 R. Southey Wat Tyler iii. 64 John Ball: I plead me guilty. Sir John Tr.: It is against the custom of this court That the prisoner should plead guilty. 1925 Northeastern Reporter 148 363 Mr. Costello at this time, your honor, we plead the defendant guilty..to general homicide. 1976 ‘B. Shelby’ Great Pebble Affair 65 My lawyer..pleaded me guilty. 1988 Newsday 11 Dec. 9/2 Sarosi has pleaded himself guilty of arranging an unlawful adoption. < as lemmas |
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