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However, Mr North successfully saw the motion ditched after a plea for the membership "not to platform transphobic views".

From BBC

It reduced racial disparities and allowed more people to be found not guilty of their charges, likely because they were not being ground down into false guilty pleas by endless pretrial detention.

From Salon

After a contentious discussion that at times referenced discredited theories, low-quality data and desperate pleas from physicians and patients to rely upon sound science, a key committee of the U.S.

She reduced his sentence from 12 months to nine due to mitigation, and then to six months for his early plea, before suspending it for 12 months.

From BBC

At a July court hearing in Indio, Piscatella made an open plea to the court seeking to downgrade each charge to a misdemeanor and avoid jail time, according to a transcript of the proceeding.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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