Sentence examples for guilty persons from inspiring English sources

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These mutilations caused a general panic, and Andocides was induced to turn informer on the guilty persons.

"Meanwhile, the guilty persons are left free to rampage, to continue doing what they enjoy doing, and that's hurting people," Mr. Green said.

Yesterday's calls by those representing the families for heads to roll and the guilty persons to be named and shamed are understandable.

"There are people who'd say it's better to let 10 guilty persons free to protect against one innocent person being wrongfully convicted," said Roy S. Malpass, a professor at the University of Texas at El Paso and an analyst for the Illinois study, who served on a research group on eyewitness identification for the National Institute of Justice in 1999.

The most famous expression of this relative weighting of likely harms is the Blackstonian dictum that "it is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer" (Blackstone 1770: 352).

It means seeking and finding guilty persons.

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I'm not a guilty person.

They overreact, like any guilty person".

"I don't want just any guilty person, I want the guilty person".

"Is he the guilty person or not?" she said.

If it looks like a guilty person is going free?

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