Translation for 'to plead' from English to Russian

to plead [ignorance, ill health etc.]

ссылаться на [+akk.] [несов.]

to plead [implore]

просить [несов.] [умолять]

• As an alternative to the insanity defense, some jurisdictions permit a defendant to plead guilty but mentally ill.
• Nikolaishvili agreed to plead guilty in 2016.
• With the assistance of the god Hermes (Argeiphontes), Hector's father Priam goes to Achilles' tent to plead with Achilles for the return of Hector's body so that he can be buried.
• Hephaestus sets the battlefield ablaze, causing the river to plead with Hera, promising her he will not help the Trojans if Hephaestus stops his attack.
• It also inspired Cauchy to plead on behalf of the Irish during the Great Famine of Ireland.

• In the past, a defendant who refused to plead (or "stood mute") was subject to "peine forte et dure" (Law French for "strong and hard punishment").
• The Alford plea is a legal mechanism that allows defendants to plead guilty while still asserting their actual innocence, in cases where defendants concede that prosecutors have sufficient evidence to secure a conviction.
• As for the August 14 charge which led to his traumatic imprisonment, Donaldson refused to plead (unlike most of those arrested, who pleaded no contest) and went to trial alone on September 28.
• Additionally, some state appellate courts require attorneys to obtain a separate certificate of admission to plead and practice in the appellate court.
• The battle stretched on several days until a snow storm affected Jaipala's strategies, forcing him to plead for peace.

• " (Law French for "hard and forceful punishment") was a method of torture formerly used in the common law legal system, in which a defendant who refused to plead ("stood mute") would be subjected to having heavier and heavier stones placed upon his or her chest until a plea was entered, or death resulted.
• Urban of Llandaff also travelled to Rome on numerous occasions to meet with Honorius throughout 1128 and 1129, to plead his case that his diocese should not be subject to the see of Canterbury.
• For example, in the legal system of the United States, a criminal defendant charged with a felony theft charge, the conviction of which would require imprisonment in state prison, may be offered the opportunity to plead guilty to a misdemeanor theft charge, which may not carry a custodial sentence.
• Section 1 of the United Kingdoms' Criminal Procedure (Insanity and Unfitness to Plead) Act 1991 provides that a jury shall not return a special verdict that "the accused is not guilty by reason of insanity" except on the written or oral evidence of two or more registered medical practitioners of whom at least one has special experience in the field of mental disorder.
• The mere existence of two mutually-exclusive factual statements is not sufficient to prove perjury; the prosecutor nonetheless has the duty to plead and prove that the statement was willfully made.