Sentence examples for quick to convict from inspiring English sources

The minister of logging himself recently complained that judges were quick to convict sawmill workers, but strangely reluctant to jail their bosses.

Jurors were quick to convict Martha Stewart after the federal judge struck down the most serious indictment against her, he said.

Partisans on both sides have been quick to convict or exonerate Sessions of any wrongdoing, but no final judgment is appropriate at this time.

Rebarbatively obscurantist the post-structuralists may be, but anyone who has read Gary Gutting's fine introduction to their thought will be a little less quick to convict them of charlatanry.

Arsene Wenger, who manages Britain's Arsenal club, called the events embarrassing but cautioned against snap judgments, saying: "Sometimes I think now we are too quick to convict people who have not been proven guilty".

Death-qualifying a jury picking jurors who would be willing to sentence a defendant to death means selecting people with uncommon temperaments: They are quicker to convict, less contemplative, more skeptical about mitigating circumstances, more likely to trust authority, and more likely to believe that justice means vengeance.

He added a quick sketch of the ruffian to the picture and so good was the likeness that the drawing was used in court to convict the man of pilfering.

The first jury was eleven-to-one to convict.

The jury voted to convict.

That was enough to convict.

They then use this evidence to convict you of wrongdoing.