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[plee] / pli /




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Earlier this month, a widely circulated post on the Gender Crossroads Substack, “A Plea to My Fellow Trans People,” declared the “honeymoon phase for trans acceptance” to be over.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025

Plea deals in Italy do not involve an admission of guilt or any acceptance of liability.

From BBC • Oct. 15, 2025

Plea bargaining gives the appearance that a defendant voluntarily accepts responsibility for a crime, even if no crime was ever committed.

From Salon • Dec. 6, 2023

Plea deals are carefully negotiated between defense lawyers and prosecutors over the course of weeks or months and it’s unusual - especially in high-profile cases - for judges to not sign off on them.

From Washington Times • Jul. 27, 2023

It was considered perfectly acceptable until the mid-nineteenth century, when Latin scholars—notably Henry Alford in his book A Plea for the Queens English—misguidedly called it a crime.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner




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