Sentence examples for accused guilty from inspiring English sources

The phrase "accused guilty" is not correct in standard written English.
It is typically used in legal contexts to describe someone who has been charged with a crime and found to be guilty.
Example: "The jury deliberated for hours before declaring the accused guilty of all charges."
Alternatives: "defendant found guilty" or "charged individual guilty."

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A fresh jury found the accused guilty.

Coverage in The Thistle has appeared to judge the accused guilty.

He promised a fair trial, despite having proclaimed the accused guilty in a sermon at the city's biggest mosque.

On the contrary, with such evidence before them, the jury are still left free to find the accused guilty or not guilty, according as they may be satisfied of his guilt or not, by the whole evidence.' 161 Ala.

The offenses were committed over "such a period of time and in such a consistent manner, in the open and under the constructive if not actual scrutiny of the camp commander" as to find the accused guilty.

When asked at oral argument whether that direction would be satisfied if, after a House vote to impeach, the Senate, without any procedure whatsoever, unanimously found the accused guilty of being "a bad guy," counsel for the United States answered that the Government's theory "leads me to answer that question yes". Tr.Oral Arg.

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Judicial decisions in criminal cases determine whether the accused is guilty or not guilty.

'That then the accused, if guilty, should object being placed in an attitude so dangerous to him, because he is guilty, is what might have been expected.

The differential is even bigger if the accused pleads guilty.

Is the accused less guilty because the police were incompetent?

The government seems to be using the court simply to rubberstamp a predetermination that the accused are guilty.

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