Assertion: defendant | /r/CapableOf | enter plea
Facets:
value: rarely
type: DEGREE
value: almost inevitably
type: DEGREE
value: despite popular perceptions to the contrary
type: OTHER
value: at arraignment
type: LOCATION
value: at some point in criminal proceedings
type: TEMPORAL
value: without counsel
type: OTHER
value: freely
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: Once the defendant has an attorney and his or her bail amount has been set, he or she enters a plea of guilty or not guilty.
text: An arraignment in court follows, at which the suspect is formally charged with a crime and enters a plea.
text: As a general proposition of constitutional law, a guilty plea may be withdrawn or nullified if it does not appear affirmatively that the defendant entered the plea freely and voluntarily.
text: When a defendant enters this plea at arraignment, the court proceeds in the same way it would proceed if the defendant pleaded guilty.
text: If a defendant entered into a plea without counsel and did not appear, from a later review of the record, to have made a knowing and intelligent plea, that defendant may have grounds to request that the conviction be stricken (removed) from the defendant’s record, or at least not be considered in any future proceedings.
text: The words “at trial, or having pleaded guilty or nolo contendere” have been added at the end of the first sentence to make clear that the trial of an absent defendant is possible only if the defendant was previously present at the trial or has entered a plea of guilty or nolo contendere.
text: If a defendant enters a plea of "guilty," the judge will compel him or her to provide all of the details of the crime, a process known as allocution.
text: The defendant enters a plea.
text: Almost inevitably, at some point in criminal proceedings, a defendant will have to enter a plea.
text: The defendant also enters a plea of guilty or not guilty.
text: Despite popular perceptions to the contrary, defendants rarely enter pleas of "not guilty by reason of insanity.