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“Would be nice to avoid a second Anthony Wright-type case and get a nolo contendere” — a plea of no contest — a city lawyer wrote to a colleague.
From New York Times ● Sep. 30, 2019
In 1977, Helms pleaded nolo contendere to misdemeanor charges of failing to testify “fully, completely, and accurately” before a Senate committee.
From Slate ● Nov. 30, 2018
Others found his plea of essentially nolo contendere to be tantamount to an admission of doping.
From Chicago Tribune ● Aug. 24, 2012
Another ad wove in a litany of Latin phrases, such as, “Don Beyer is the nolo contendere dealer.”
From Washington Post
Oh! my aspiring pastors, divines to whose ears nolo episcopari are the sweetest of words, which of you would be a bishop on such terms as these?
From Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope
