plead innocent

Lawyers frown on the phrase “plead innocent” (it’s “plead guilty” or"plead not guilty”); but outside of legal contexts the phrase isstandard English.

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News & Articles

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• Filing: Shoffner plans to plead innocent
  LITTLE ROCK — Former Arkansas Treasurer Martha Shoffner says she plans to plead innocent to charges she accepted cash payments from a bond broker to whom she steered state investments, but a federal judge says she can't skip a hearing to enter that plea.
  June 24, 2013 - Arkansas Democrat-Gazette