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guilty plea

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guilty plea noun acceptance of criminal wronggoing, admission of blame, admission of guilt, admission of punishment, admission of the charges as read, at fault, blameworthiness, conviction, culpable plea, plea of guilt
Associated concepts: Fifth Amendment, plea of nolo connendere, right against self-incrimination torture


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Smith, the Hot Springs banker who in April entered a "conditional" guilty plea to one count of filing a false federal income tax return.
However, at a hearing on Tuesday in the East District Court of Missouri, Judge Carol E Jackson accepted a motion to set aside the guilty plea of Carruthers, who was chief executive of betting firm Betonsports when detained by American authorities at Dallas airport in 2006 while travelling from Britain to the company's operational base in Costa Rica.
Kasab's guilty plea came as US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met Indian Prime Minister Manmohah Singh for private talks that are widely expected to include Indo-Pakistani relations.
 
 
 
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