1.   No plea was taken from Mr. Bell in respect of the alleged offence of drunk and disorderly behaviour.

2.   And mandatory sentences are so grotesquely harsh that some prosecutors and judges get around them by taking pleas to less serious offenses.

3.   And they took a plea that had the legal effect of barring our prosecution.

4.   At that point, Wes Culver took his plea before the committee.

5.   But however slim the chance for change may be, the voices of concern are real and the plea is being taken seriously, the official said.

6.   Defense lawyers were split over whether they would advise their clients to take the plea or demand a trial in the criminal case.

7.   Defense lawyers were split over whether they would advise their clients to take the plea or demand a trial.

8.   In fact, he said, that experience might have influenced these five defendants to take the plea and avoid the risk of a trial.

9.   Inside the courtroom, Ellis took the plea from Lindh, dressed in a green, short-sleeved prison jumpsuit.

10.   It took the pleas of his teammates, who reminded him he had never stopped being a Los Angeles Laker, to get Magic Johnson to assert himself.