pleader

An Alford plea is a unique plea that allows the pleader to maintain his innocence while conceding that the state had sufficient evidence to prove his guilt.

The reserved youth grew into a low-key politician, never much good as a backslapper or a special pleader.

If you know Chacon’s name it’s most likely as one half of early 90s US duo Charles & Eddie, who were No 1 for two weeks in 1992 with the sweet neo-soul pleader Would I Lie to You.

I’m no pleader or whiner, but I found myself making those sounds at Big Ma in Korvettes department store on school shopping day.

The frontman, Sam Cook-Parrott, is an effective pleader, and unafraid of letting his anguish show: “I’m feeling sick and tired/in new and frightening ways.”