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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
allocute .
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Examples
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That said (IAAL), the absence of a judicial encounter wherein he "allocuted" to the charged conduct may present enough wriggle room for a friendly judge to set aside the plea.
Read Larry Craig's Poignant Request To Withdraw Guilty Plea 2009
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Instead, the prosecutor allowed him to plead guilty to the first homicide on the condition that he completely allocuted to the crime.
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A couple of months ago, he allocuted (ph) under oath that he committed the three crimes he's charged with and he was accepting the 25 years in prison.
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drunkdriver, the courts have an obligation to refuse to accept a plea deal if the plea is not supported by the allocuted facts or the law.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Prison for Posting a Rap Song Called “Kill Me a Cop”: 2009
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