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===US criminal procedure=== A defendant who refuses to enter a plea is usually interpreted as giving a plea of not guilty; the [[Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure]], for instance, state, "If a defendant refuses to enter a plea or if a defendant organization fails to appear, the court must enter a plea of not guilty."<ref name=cornell11>{{cite web|publisher=[[Cornell Law School]]|title=Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure: Rule 11. Pleas|url=https://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/frcrmp/rule_11}}</ref> Similarly, if a defendant attempts to enter an unorthodox plea (a "creative plea"), this will usually be interpreted as a plea of not guilty.<ref>{{citation|url=http://www.nlg-la.org/index_files/cd_questions.pdf|title=Questions and Answers about Civil Disobedience and the Legal Process|author=National Lawyers Guild, LA Chapter|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727003254/http://www.nlg-la.org/index_files/cd_questions.pdf|archive-date=2011-07-27}}</ref> One example of this was a defendant accused of a crime committed while protesting a [[nuclear power]] plant, who gave his plea as "I plead for the beauty that surrounds us".<ref>{{citation|author=Hurst, John|title=A-plant protestors being freed|work=Los Angeles Times|date=August 10, 1978}}</ref>
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