IPE Award: Top Nutrition Blog 2015 - Culinary Therapy. The Institute for the Psychology of Eating has named my blog one of the 100 Best Nutrition Blogs of 2015. Thank you! Iâm both thrilled and honored.
Description of Special Pleading. Special Pleading is a fallacy in which a person applies standards, principles, rules, etc. to others while taking herself (or those she has a special interest in) to be exempt, without providing adequate justification for the exemption. This sort of reasoning has the following form:
Pretrial Hearings Set Rules for Trials. Even without a plea bargain, your criminal case doesn't usually go straight to trial. A pretrial hearing occurs first. This is when you tell the judge whether you're guilty or not guilty. If you plead not guilty, the judge will decide issues that your attorney or the prosecutor want to clear up before trial. For example, your attorney might want the judge to block the prosecutor from using certain evidence against you.