That variety, now named for him, is differentiated from nolo contendere, an action also of this type.
Autreforis convict and autreforis acquit are two types of the peremptory version of this.  In North Carolina V Alford, the defendant used it to avoid execution. That variety, now named for him, is differentiated from nolo contendere, an action also of this type. This term also is part of a namesake colloquy, during which the judge listens to an allocution by the defendant. A reduction in the class of a felony, or prison term, is at the center of its namesake bargaining.. For ten points name this action, which at arriagnment involves answering a judge's question with "guilty" or "not guilty."
Autreforis convict and autreforis acquit are two types of the peremptory version of this.  
{pleading} (accept word forms, do not accept {pleaing guilty}, or {pleaing innocent})