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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
He did not even have a chance to launch his nolo episcopari at the Major.
From Theodore Roosevelt; an Intimate Biography by William Roscoe Thayer
