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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• ninty vs ninety
• practicle vs practical
• absorbtion vs absorption
• appauled vs appalled
• buttox vs buttocks
• greatful vs grateful
• tooken vs took vs taken
• extend vs extent
• gaurd vs guard
• flys vs flies

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