The phrase "actual offense" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in legal contexts or discussions about wrongdoing to refer to a specific crime or violation that has occurred.
Example: "The defendant was charged with the actual offense of theft, which was clearly documented in the evidence presented."
Alternatives: "real crime" or "genuine violation".
Yes, I think for them, humiliation is sometimes more important than the actual offense.
The proposed bill would eliminate certain provisions from the law enacted in 1997, in particular, the actual offense of "gender violence".
If the Grizzlies were running an actual offense in Randolph's absence, they could be excused for clumsily feeling their way through a new dynamic while integrating a new player.
Then came Tejada, whose actual offense was that he made false statements to investigators about a conversation he had with a teammate in 2003 about that teammate's use of steroids and human growth hormone.
He decides to have his way with her prosthesis, since "a touch there would not constitute an actual offense," but he makes one tiny miscalculation and fondles the wrong leg.
The actual offense was that her sexual orientation was part of her name, and they have a blanket ban on that.
Yet failure to pay fees and fines can land them in jail even if their actual offenses did not.
While military officials here and in Iraq say the reports of thievery and lawlessness are isolated cases among more than 135,000 American troops, other military officials say the official numbers probably underestimate the actual offenses because most Iraqis are too frightened to file a formal complaint with the American authorities.
There are no means of ascertaining the actual, blasphemous offense, and people are regularly rounded up on charges of speaking against any Islamic figure or desecrating the Holy Quran.
Human Rights Watch demanded the prisoners' immediate release; according to HRW's Middle East and North Africa Deputy Director Joe Stork, the military court's original verdict was "absolutely mind-boggling", failing to mention a single actual criminal offense beyond acts relating to the defendants' basic human rights.
One rule that's clear is that an impeachable offense doesn't have to be an actual crime.
