The phrase "actual guilt" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in discussions about legal matters, morality, or personal accountability to refer to the true culpability of an individual.
Example: "The jury had to determine whether the defendant's actions constituted actual guilt or if there were mitigating circumstances."
Alternatives: "true culpability" or "real guilt".
1) After a week's worth of reading, I remain agnostic about Davis's actual guilt or innocence.
Actual guilt is the province of those unfortunates who sat jammed in serried rows in Manhattan Criminal Court.
The judge accepted that there were "no words alleging actual guilt" but the reader would believe that there were "grounds to suspect dishonesty" following the Star's investigation.
But he added that the cases are before the appeals court, and expressed the hope that "no one will be convicted beyond their actual guilt".
"It appears the actual guilt or innocence of the shooting will not be difficult to prove, and his pre-shooting behaviour seems to be a history of erratic behaviour – issues of pre-existing mental illness".
Accepting "responsibility," if not actual guilt, for his involvement in terrorism, he agreed to make amends for Lockerbie, and he quietly paid nearly three billion dollars in damages to the victims' families.
The already operatic story line is embellished with grandiose flourishes — burning desire that leads to an actual fire, guilt that gnaws until its sufferer starves to death — but, happily, it is also underpinned by a deeper concern with sacrifice and redemption.
One of those church officials noted that under the zero-tolerance policy, a priest could be removed from ministry -- although not necessarily the priesthood -- on the basis of a credible accusation, not an actual finding of guilt.
In truth, particularly over the past decade or so, the Crown Prosecution Service, with the support of politicians and much of the media, has used JE to prosecute and convict in cases where the actual evidence of guilt has been absent.
At that point such statements would be based on actual determinations of guilt instead of untested accusations; moreover, the potential risks to the fairness of the process would be dramatically reduced.
In New York City, a small fraction of legal cases go to trial -- in 2000 there were 412 criminal trials engendered by 220,000 arrests -- with the vast majority of cases resolved through a prosecutor-driven pleading system that typically weighs the likelihood of conviction rather than actual innocence or guilt.
