How To Use allocution In A Sentence
- I, however, choose not to be so elusive, and am more than willing to fill in the blank: the preservation rule does not apply if a portion of the defendant's factual allocution negates an essential element of the crime, casts significant doubt on his guilt, or otherwise calls into question the voluntariness of his plea. A Felony DWI May Not Serve as a Predicate Felony for Assault 2d
- In normal courts, this process is known as "allocution" and even in these fundamentally flawed commissions, it is hard to imagine any judge accepting guilty pleas in capital cases without undertaking this second stage with rigor and care. Anthony D. Romero: An Insider's View Of Gitmo This Week
- In any event, during the accused's exercise of his allocution right under s.726 of the Code, he specifically stated he had had a good and rewarding life with his family and in his work during the two decades he spent in Tanzania.
- This he made abundantly clear in the allocution he delivered in Rome on May 12, 1879, on the occasion of receiving the cardinal's red hat from Pope Leo XIII.
- Le président de la CSQ, Réjean Parent, a indiqué qu'il n'était pas possible de rester neutre dans l'actuelle campagne électorale, mercredi, lors de son allocution d'ouverture des travaux du conseil général de la CSQ. Archive 2007-03-01
- I am here today to accept responsibility for my crimes by pleading guilty and, with this plea allocution, explain the means by which I carried out and concealed my fraud.
- Four of the McCartney sisters received thunderous applause after a most eloquent and moving allocution from the distinguished Political Editor of The Sunday World.
- In this allocution the pope expressly distinguishes between true and false civilization, and declares that history witnesses to the fact that the Holy See has always been the protector and patron of all genuine civilization; and he affirms that, if a system designed to de-Christianize the world be called a system of progress and civilization, he can never hold out the hand of peace to such a system. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
- Nor did Pope Pius XII eschew the field of psychotherapy, if one credits his allocutions to those who practiced in the field.
- Hm, that is a very interesting illustration of an illocution, followed by an allocution. Now, why didn't I think of that!
