Sentence examples for determined guilt from inspiring English sources

The ancestor to the duel is the early medieval system of trial by ordeal – physical tests of endurance which determined guilt and innocence.

Under the New Jersey hate-crime law that the Apprendi decision invalidated, the jury determined guilt of the basic offense and the judge then decided whether the defendant should receive an enhanced sentence based on a finding that the crime was motivated by bias.

"By accepting the racial status quo and the legal oppression of other blacks, these law enforcement officers became the first African Americans to confront the paradox of policing a society where the color of a person's skin often determined guilt or innocence," Dulaney writes.

They controlled the means for agriculture and determined guilt or innocence in disputes.

But the decision opens the door to challenges to sentencing procedures in many other contexts, including federal drug sentences and even the structure of the federal sentencing guidelines themselves, in which the jury determines guilt and the judge makes many essentially factual determinations that lead to the final sentence.

The first determines guilt or innocence.

"We cannot determine guilt or innocence.

A petit jury then determines guilt or innocence.

The judge will then assess the evidence and determine guilt or innocence and sentencing.

It says it will not use polygraphs to determine guilt but only to prompt investigation.

So much then for those quaint old notions that the aim of a trial is to determine guilt.