1.   Williams has pleaded guilty to reduced charges.

2.   The jury found him guilty on a reduced charge of assaulting the youth by knocking him to the ground.

3.   Yesterday, the Crown accepted a guilty plea to the reduced charge of culpable homicide.

4.   And they have failed to agree on what testimony she could offer in exchange for either a reduced criminal charge or no charge at all.

5.   A former Navy intelligence analyst, Robert C. Kim, accused of spying for South Korea, pleaded guilty Wednesday to a reduced charge of conspiracy to commit espionage.

6.   A Manhattan man will go to jail for helping his wife commit suicide, after he pleaded guilty Friday to a reduced charge in the unusual case.

7.   About half the defendants have pleaded guilty in return for reduced charges or lighter sentences.

8.   Burriss had initially fought those allegations but eventually pleaded no contest to two reduced charges of misdemeanor battery.

9.   But in the months since the original indictment, several defendants have pleaded guilty or agreed to cooperate with prosecutors in exchange for reduced charges.