In the law of England and Wales , fitness to plead is the capacity of a defendant in criminal proceedings to comprehend the course of those proceedings. The concept of fitness to plead also applies in Scots law . Its United States equivalent is Competence law competence to stand . Test If the issue of fitness to plead is raised, a judge is able to find a person unfit to plead. This is usually done based on information following a psychiatric evaluation. In England and Wales the legal test of fitness to plead is based on R v Pritchard. The accused will be unfit to plead if he is unable to either ..., the prosecution must prove beyond reasonable doubt that the defendant is unfit to plead .... ref HM Advocate V Wilson 1942 J. C. 75 ref Procedure The question of unfitness to plead is determined ... to answer . If the judge determines that the defendant is unfit to plead, evidence will be heard ... 20 para date 2000 03 30 ref If the jury find that the defendant is unfit to plead, the judge may make ... order within the meaning of Schedule 2 to the Criminal Procedure Insanity and Unfitness to Plead ... into fitness to plead in the UK, with no prospective studies and no studies involving the comparison ... of unfit to plead in terms of psychiatric symptomatology, or as to the relative importance of each ... action displayAbstract?fromPage online&aid 64003 CJO Abstract Fitness to plead. A prospective study ... generated title ref An appraisal of the use of the legal test for fitness to plead in England found that 40 of psychiatric court reports did not mention fitness to plead at all, and that only a third made a statement about fitness to plead that was supported by reference to the legal criteria. ref Larkin, E., Collins, P. 1989 . Fitness to plead and psychiatric reports. Medicine, science and law ... court reports made reference to the full legal criteria for fitness to plead. ref Brewster, E., Willox, EG., Haut F. 2008 . Assessing fitness to plead in Scotland s learning disabled. The Journal ... more details
Infobox album See Wikipedia WikiProject Albums Name Plead the Fifth Type studio Artist Taproot band Taproot Cover taproot plead the fifth.png Released Start date 2010 5 11 Recorded Saline, Michigan Genre Nu metal , alternative metal Length 40 25 Label Victory Records Victory Producer Tim Patalan Last album Our Long Road Home br 2008 This album Plead the Fifth br 2010 Next album Singles Name Plead the Fifth Type album single 1 Fractured Everything I Said Was True single 1 date February 16, 2010 single 2 Release Me single 2 date September 14, 2010 Album ratings rev1 Allmusic rev1score Rating 2.5 5 ref Allmusic class album id plead the fifth r1737111 pure url yes Allmusic review ref rev2 Thrash Hits rev2score Rating 5 6 ref http www.thrashhits.com 2010 06 album taproot plead the fifth Thrash Hits review ref Automatically generated by DASHBot Plead the Fifth is the fifth studio album by American alternative metal band Taproot band Taproot . Originally planned for an April 13, 2010 release, it was delayed to May 11. The album marks Taproot s first release through Victory Records , having signed in November 2009. Fractured Everything I Said Was True was released as the lead single , followed by Release Me . The confirmed track listing was released on the Victory Records website. Guitarist Mike DeWolf described the album s sound as a return to the heavy nature of Taproot s early material We re definitely making it as heavy as possible and aggressive while still keeping a lot of the beautiful melodies and just the general beauty of things in it. We re using a lot more of our baritone guitars, which was sort of the signature of the Gift Taproot album Gift and Welcome Taproot album Welcome 2002 years, so that immediately makes things a lot heavier. ref http www.roadrunnerrecords.com blabbermouth.Net news.aspx?mode Article&newsitemID 136228 TAPROOT s Plead The Fifth Pushed Back To May ... albums Category Victory Records albums ru Plead the Fifth ... more details
Fair Use Rationale Article Plead The Fifth album The image is low resolution. Copies could not be used to make illegal copies of the album artwork on another CD The image does not replace the original market role of the CD. Its use here does not limit the copyright owner s rights to sell the CD in any way. The image has previously been published and is freely available elsewhere on the internet. The image contributes significantly to the article by illustrating the subject of the article. Licensing Non free album cover ... more details
Krugel is a surname, and may refer to Earl Krugel 1942 2005 , an American coordinator for Jewish Defense League who plead guilty to terrorism charges in 2005 Armin Krugel a Swiss nordic combined skier See also Kugel surname Long comment to avoid being listed on short pages ... more details
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A Tamil Canadian computer science student, Sathajhan Sarachandran , is a member of the Tamil Tigers who pleaded guilty to trying to purchase anti aircraft missile s for the militant group. He was convicted of supporting terrorism. ref name plead Globe and Mail , http www.theglobeandmail.com servlet story LAC.20090127.TAMIL27 TPStory National Toronto man pleads guilty to aiding Tamil Tigers , January 27, 2009 ref American Nadarasa Yogarasa was alleged to have helped Sarachandran concoct the plan, after Sarachandran contacted an FBI informant in Brooklyn, New York about purchasing weapons for the Tigers. The informant sent him e mails suggesting he had ten 9K38 Igla missiles and 500 AK 47 s for 900,000, and suggested that the pair meet him in a New York warehouse. ref name plead Two other Canadians, Sahilal Sabaratnam and Thiruthanikan Thanigasalam , accompanied the pair, who traveled claiming they were attending a bachelor party in the state. They, along with University of Waterloo student Suresh Sriskandarajah were also arrested and charged in the plot. ref name plead ref name gta A student at the University of Toronto , ref name gta Toronto Star , http www.thestar.com News GTA article 577776 GTA man pleads guilty in arms case , January 27, 2008 ref Sarachandran claimed to have been in direct contact with leader Velupillai Prabhakaran and had lately been speaking to intelligence chief Pottu Amman . ref name plead On January 26, 2009, he pleaded guilty, and two days later his co defendants Sahilal Sabaratnam and Thiruthanikan Thanigasalam also pleaded guilty. ref Bell, Stewart. National Post , http www.canada.com news Canadians plead guilty terror trial 1226186 story.html Canadians plead guilty in terror trial , January 28, 2009 ref On January 2010 Sarachandran was sentence to 26 years in prison. ref http www.ottawacitizen.com news Canadian Tamil Tiger supporter sentenced years prison 2476466 story.html ref References reflist CanadianTerrorism state collapsed Categor ... more details
The Clerk s Twa Sons o Owsenford is Child ballad 72. ref Francis James Child , English and Scottish Popular Ballads http www.sacred texts.com neu eng child ch072.htm The Clerk s Twa Sons o Owensford & 91 sic& 93 ref Synopsis The clerk s two sons seduce the two daughters of a mayor. The mayor sentences them to hang. Their father comes to plead for them, but is unsuccessful. The daughters, if they appear, also plead without success. On his return, the father may tell the mother that their sons will return at Christmas. In some variants, the daughters and the parents die as well, of grief. Commentary This ballad appears closely related to The Wife of Usher s Well . ref Francis James Child, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads , v 2, p 173, Dover Publications, New York 1965 ref In some variants of that ballad, the wife s dead sons return to her as ghosts at Christmas this sort of appearance may be what the father means in the variants when he speaks of their coming at Christmas. References reflist DEFAULTSORT Clerk s Twa Sons O Owsenford Category Child Ballads Folk song stub ... more details
Unreferenced date June 2008 Sabina, Duchess of Bavaria 1528 1578 was the daughter of John II, Count Palatine of Simmern and Beatrix of Baden . In 1544 she married Lamoral, Count of Egmont with whom she had twelve children. When her husband was arrested and accused of treason in 1567, she wrote king Philip II of Spain Philip II , the king of Spain, a letter to plead for his release. It was to no avail and he was decapitated in the following year. After her death in 1578, she was buried next to her husband in Zottegem . Category 1528 births Category 1578 deaths Category House of Egmond Netherlands hist stub ... more details
Summary Fair use clipped to include only single panel which seems to be in better keeping with fair use provisions. http images.ucomics.com comics db 1974 db740812.gif Stonewall Doonesbury comic of 1974, August 12, Pulitzer prize. The strip is a play on the Nixon quote blockquote I don t give a shit what happens. I want you all to stonewall it, let them plead the Fifth Amendment, cover up or anything else, if it ll save it, save this plan. That s the whole point. We re going to protect our people if we can. to Haldeman, tapes ordered released for the trial of Haldeman, Ehrlichman and Mitchell blockquote Licensing Non free comic ... more details
A sum certain is a specified and set amount of money owed by one person to another. It is a legal term of art , having specialized meaning in the law. Some kinds of legal claims can not be brought at all unless the sum certain can be plead. A document claimed to be a negotiable instrument can not be negotiated unless it is for a sum certain. External links cite web url http law.onecle.com new york uniform commercial code UCC03 106 3 106.html title Section 3 106 Sum Certain date 15 August 2006 work New York Uniform Commercial Code Law accessdate 4 January 2010 Category Legal terms Category Debt Category Negotiable instrument law ... more details
Summary Summary Non free use rationale Article Mrs. California Description Robert California pretends to plead for a job for his wife Source A screenshot from Mrs. California , an episode of The Office. Copyright NBC. Screenshot from Season 8 Portion Full Frame Low resolution Yes Purpose To illustrate a poignant scene in the episode infobox . Replaceability No free images known for this episode other information Believed fair use because It does not limit the copyright owner s rights to sell the related product Aids commentary on the plot outline Poignantly illustrates the related episode It illustrates the significant moment which characterises the episode in question Licensing Non free television screenshot ... more details
were in a gray area of the law, the co founder and public face of NinjaVideo, Hana Beshara, plead ... Justin A. Dedemeko, another co founder of NinjaVideo, has plead guilty to uploading content and profiting ... other individuals have plead guilty to charges stemming from the operations of this website. Joshua David Evans and Jeremy Lynn Andrew plead guilty in October 2011 to charges of one count of conspiracy ... more details
to Plead Guilty in International DRAM Price Fixing Conspiracy http www.usdoj.gov atr public press releases 2005 208655.htm Korean Company Hynix Agrees to Plead Guilty to Price Fixing External links ... more details
dablink There are multiple individuals named Irfan Khan . Irfan Khan is a Unani Unani medicine Unani doctor who was captured in July 2005 on suspicion that he was involved in the July 5th, 2005 Ram Janmabhoomi attack in Ayodhya . ref name IndiaInfo050803 http news.indiainfo.com 2005 08 04 0408ayodhya jail.html Ayodhya Jail custody for militants arrested in JK , India Info , August 3, 2005 ref Khan was described, by The Tribune as the ringleader of the attack. ref name TribuneIndia050725 http www.tribuneindia.com 2005 20050726 nation.htm 11 Ayodhya attack suspect in 14 day judicial custody , The Tribune , July 25, 2005 ref The Tribune said Khan plead innocence, and that while he knew two of the attackers, it was only because they were patients of his. References references Category Terrorism in India Category Living people India bio stub crime bio stub ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2006 Dablink For other senses of this phrase, see List of methods of capital punishment Infobox Album See Wikipedia WikiProject Albums Name Methods of Execution Type studio Artist Brodequin Cover Released 2004 Genre Brutal death metal Length 33 01 Label Unmatched Brutality Reviews Last album Prelude to Execution br 2003 This album Methods of Execution br 2004 Next album Methods of Execution is the third and latest full length album by Brodequin . The album is of the death metal Brutal death metal brutal death metal genre. Track listing Slaves to the Pyre The Gridiron The Red Theatre Pressing to Plead Tyburn Field Durance Vile Lingering Existence Cast Into Torment Verdrinken Punishment Without Mercy Methods of Execution DEFAULTSORT Methods Of Execution Category 2004 albums Category Brodequin albums 2000s death metal album stub ... more details
Wikify date December 2010 Nihil dicit is Latin language Latin for he says nothing a judgment for want of a plea. The name of a judgment which a judge may render against a defendant who failed to plead and failed to answer a plaintiff s declaration or complaint within the prescribed time limit. The defendant failed to say why the court should not issue the judgment against him. The failure to say constitutes an admission of the justice of the cause of action against the defendant it does so more strongly than a mere default. ref Vide 15 Vin. Ab. 556 Dane s Ab. Index, h.t. nothing why it should not. ref ref Vide 15 Vin. Ab. 556 Dane s Ab. Index, h.t. ref References references Category Latin legal terms Latin legal phrase stub it Nihil dicit ... more details
Multiple issues context June 2008 refimprove June 2008 A miners court was a court that summoned a subset of the miner s in a district when a dispute arose in the frontier West. A presiding officer or judge was elected and a jury was selected. Other systems that were used included alcalde s and arbitration. In the event a decision was disputed, a mass meeting of the campp could be called to allow a dissatisfied party to plead his case and possibly get the decision reversed. Further reading Boggs, Johnny D. http www.johnnydboggs.com GreatMurderTrials.html Great Murder Trials of the Old West . Piano Republic of Texas Press, 2003. External links http www.buzzle.com articles the wild west of myth and reality.html The Wild West of Myth and Reality http mises.org journals jls 3 1 3 1 2.pdf An American Experiment in Anarcho Capitalism The Not So Wild, Wild West Category Quasi judicial bodies Category American Old West Category History of mining US law stub OldWest stub ... more details
Orphan date February 2009 Hugh Jeffery Ward is a convicted criminal in the United States responsible for one of the first known thefts of computer software in 1971 he allegedly stole a 25,000 USD data plot ting program from Information Systems Design of Oakland, CA . Ward plead guilty to theft of trade secrets. ref Computer Security , by John M Carroll 1995, ISBN 978 0750696005 ref References reflist Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Ward, Hugh Jeffery ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Ward, Hugh Jeffery Category Living people US crime bio stub ... more details
Summary Non free use rationale Description TWO FORMER Los Angeles city councilmen, James S. sic McKnight, upper picture, and Roy C. Donley, lower, surrendered yesterday on a secret indictment charging them with agreeing to accept a 10,000 bribe to influence their votes on a city garbage contract. They will appear March 22 to plead. Daily News Photos. Source Direct scan from front page of Los Angeles Daily News of March 17, 1934. Portion Upper profile Low resolution Article James Stuart McKnight Purpose Photo will be used to illustrate article on James L. McKnight, Los Angeles City Council member. Replaceability Subject died 60 years ago, so a free alternative is believed impossible to obtain. Notes Both were acquitted deemed innocent on May 30, 1934. These photos are being uploaded separately into two separate files. Licensing Non free historic image ... more details
Semisi Kioa Lafu Sika is a Tonga n politician and Member of the Legislative Assembly of Tonga Tongan Parliament . He is a member of the Democratic Party of the Friendly Islands . Sika is a businessman who runs a takeaway shop and catering firm. ref cite web url http pacific.scoop.co.nz 2010 11 tongan election independent power brokers may hold key to choice of pm title Tongan elections Independent power brokers may hold key to choice of PM author Pesi Fonua publisher Pacific Scoop date 2010 11 26 accessdate 2010 12 02 ref He is a lonstanding supporter of the democratic movement in Tonga. ref cite web url http forums.planet tonga.com viewtopic.php?f 19&t 29046 title Planet Tonga Exclusive Interview with Semisi Sika publisher Planet Tonga date 2006 11 22 accessdate 2010 12 02 ref In 2007 he was one of three people, including Human Rights and Democracy Movement leader Samuela Akilisi Pohiva , prosecuted over his leadership of a protest march in June 2006. ref cite web url http en.tahitipresse.pf 2007 02 tonga protest leaders plead not guilty title Tonga protest leaders plead not guilty publisher Tahiti Presse date 2007 02 12 accessdate 2010 12 02 ref Sika was elected to Parliament in the seat of Tongatapu 2 in the Tongan general election, 2010 2010 elections . References reflist Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Sika, Semisi Kioa Lafu ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Sika, Semisi Kioa Lafu Category Members of the Legislative Assembly of Tonga Category Living people Category Democratic Party of the Friendly Islands politicians Tonga politician stub ... more details
Refimprove date September 2011 The murder of Mohebullah refers to the 2010 shooting of prisoner Mohebullah in Afghanistan , by a US soldier that later pleaded guilty and was convicted by a US military judge. On October 17,2010 in in a jail cell at a U.S. outpost in Afghanistan ref name fox cite web url http www.foxnews.com us 2011 05 25 soldier expected plead guilty detainee death title US Soldier Gets 12 Years In Detainee Death publisher Fox News date 2010 04 07 accessdate 2011 09 30 ref prisoner Muhebullah was shot to death after soldier David Lawrence had unlocked the door and entered the prison cell of Mohebullah. The prisoner was described by Army officials as a suspected Taliban commander ref name fox according to the website of FoxNews . Trial and conviction In a US military court, soldier Lawrence was sentenced on May 25,2011 to 12 and a half ref cite web url http www.vg.no nyheter utenriks artikkel.php?artid 10086199 title Amerikansk soldat tilst r drap p Taliban fange VG Nett om Afghanistan publisher Vg.no language Norwegian date 2011 05 26 accessdate 2011 09 30 ref years for the premeditated murder of Mohebullah . References reflist External links cite news url http articles.latimes.com 2011 may 21 nation la na soldier plea 20110522 title U.S. soldier to plead guilty in killing of Taliban prisoner publisher work Los Angeles Times date May 21, 2011 accessdate September 30, 2011 Category Trials in the United States Category Murder in 2010 Category People murdered in Afghanistan Category Deaths by firearm in Afghanistan Category 2010 in Afghanistan Category Murder trials crime stub Afghanistan stub US mil stub ... more details
and colonial America ref In 1772 refusing to plead was deemed to be equivalent to pleading guilty ... to plead to the charge of having harboured Catholic then outlawed priest s in her house. She died ... , refused to plead, even under 400 pounds 180 kg , and were killed when bystanders, out of mercy ... Miller s political drama The Crucible , where Giles Corey is pressed to death after refusing to plead ... more details
, and refusal to plead Giles Corey was arrested on April 18, 1692, along with Mary Warren , Abigail ... Abigail Hobbs confessed to Giles being a warlock . Corey refused to plead guilty or not guilty , was committed ..., Corey refused to plead. ref http www2.iath.virginia.edu salem people gilescorey.html Salem ... to plead could not be tried. To avoid persons cheating justice, the legal remedy for refusing to plead was Crushing execution peine forte et dure . In this process the prisoner is stripped naked ... of his refusal to plead, on September 17, Sheriff George Corwin led Corey to a pit in the open ... out, let alone make a plea. After two days, Giles was asked three times to plead innocent or guilty ... ABC CLIO ref blockquote It is unusual for persons to refuse to plead, and extremely rare to find reports ... to plead, he died in full possession of his estate, which would otherwise have been forfeited to the government ... more details
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