Sentence examples for permit a guilty from inspiring English sources

Sometimes the court will permit a guilty plea to be withdrawn.

And before the jury began deliberating, indeed before the trial started, Judge John F. Kavanewsky Jr. made clear that the law permits a guilty verdict based on circumstantial evidence.

They also permit a few almost guilty drops of fragrant olive oil from garlic confit.

France cannot permit a scandal".

The referees permit a lot of contact.

Georgia has passed a law that would make any school board permitting a non-segregated school to be set up within its jurisdiction guilty of a felony.

The court-martial rendered its decision on January 26 , 1780 finding Arnold guilty of breaching the articles of war by permitting a vessel from an enemy port into Philadelphia and recommended that he be reprimanded by Washington.

Mr. Malema was permitted a plea bargain, resulting in the withdrawal of three internal charges against him in exchange for a guilty plea in one other.

"Can an accused plead guilty," Colonel Henley asked, "to a capital offense at a military commission?" The military prosecutors argued that Congress had a "clear intent" to permit guilty pleas in death penalty cases at Guantánamo.

The council permitted a married diaconate.

In Padilla v. Kentucky (2010), the Court held that counsel's failure to inform an alien pleading guilty of the risk of deportation fell below the objective standard of the performance prong of Strickland and permitted an alien who would not have plead guilty but for such failure to withdraw his guilty plea.