Sentence examples for lead to a guilty from inspiring English sources
On Wednesday morning, as the defense began its case, Judge Kavanewsky rejected a motion to dismiss, telling Mr. Skakel's lawyer, Michael Sherman, that the evidence so far could reasonably lead to a guilty verdict.
Although the doctors had been able to see Lamb's answers for what they really were, Nosanchuk feared that Lamb's appearance could actually lead the jury to believe that he was sane, which might lead to a guilty verdict and the gallows.
His arrest led to a guilty plea, which led to the hearing on Wednesday.
The bill cites a case brought by Mr. Vance's office last year that led to a guilty plea by Curtis Tucker for the attempted rape of a 15-year-old six years earlier.
The first is regarding his actions that led to a guilty plea of falsely stating income in 1998 after an I.R.S. investigation into several referees' pocketing cash from downgraded airline tickets.
But others may be luckier: Mr Edwards's lawyer, David Wasinger, is now in the final phase of another whistleblower case that led to a guilty verdict in October for mortgage fraud against Bank of America.
That led to a guilty finding under New York's insanity law, which holds the mentally ill responsible for crimes unless they are unable to distinguish right from wrong and are substantially unable to appreciate the consequences of their acts.
The letter also led to a guilty plea in May by Dennis Pappas, a former vice president of Cipriani U.S.A., who admitted to defrauding three insurance companies and the Social Security Administration.
In Colorado, the only other U.S. state to allow it, the method led to a guilty plea in a car-theft case in Denver last year.
Of those, only half result in criminal charges and of those, only one in four leads to a guilty verdict.
At least 95% of criminal cases in California are resolved by plea bargain, a negotiation that typically leads to a guilty plea to some crimes in consideration of a prosecutor's decision to drop other charges.
