Twelve courts of appeals exist, each retaining jurisdiction over appeals from common pleas, municipal, and county courts in a set geographical area.

The league also has a personal-conduct policy, but most suspensions that have fallen under that umbrella have resulted from successful prosecutions or guilty pleas.

Judge Marquevich said the impetus for the investigation came from pleas by two American families who had failed to get the group to give back their children.

Although he's no longer teaching, the phone seems to ring all day with calls from friends, pleas to sign petitions, research inquiries or speaking invitations.

He often left the stage to a thundering applause from his audiences and pleas for an encore performance.

If her math held, she'd received twenty-three calls from reporters, which ran the gamut from charm, pleas, vague threats, and minor bribes, since midnight.

It is from such pleas that Dr. Kevorkian selects his patients, though only, he stresses, after consulting extensively with them, their families and their doctors.

"Truth becomes a hostage to the efficiencies gained from negotiated pleas."

The Pentagon's actions are based on information coming from indictments, guilty pleas or newly unsealed court affidavits.

In 1622 he succeeded his father to become farmer of the profits from seals in King's bench and common pleas which was worth at least £560 a year.