failure to plead造句

• In the sentencing phase, the prosecutor " argued : [ i ] that Wilson put the government to its proof of guilt rather than plead guilty; and [ ii ] that Wilson's allocution of remorse should be discredited because he failed to testify notwithstanding the fact that'[ t ] he path for that witness stand has never been blocked for Mr . Wilson .'As to the first argument, although a guilty plea may properly be considered to support a sentence mitigation for acceptance of responsibility, the Sixth Amendment is violated when failure to plead guilty is treated as an aggravating circumstance.