Sentence examples for would be innocent from inspiring English sources

Because most of the people you kill would be innocent civilians".

Finally, what would matter — and significantly — would be innocent casualties resulting from counterterrorism operations, which could well set off a tribal response.

"It is hugely important that we pardon people convicted of historical sexual offences who would be innocent of any crime today," he said.

Earlier, the government's counsel said the tender winners – a consortium led by construction company Lend Lease – would be "innocent third parties" if the injunction were granted because it would cost them $435,000 for each week the contract was delayed.

"If I committed a crime and investigated myself, I would be innocent," said Traci Alderman, whose nephew Jason was shot dead by a Bakersfield police officer in August this year.

Our heroes would be innocent, wrongfully pursued; they would be mistaken for someone else, or forget who they were; they would elude capture by plane, train, automobile and hoverpack.

If they are convicted, you then get the pleasure of trying to go to sleep each night knowing that if you had just done a little bit more, perhaps asked a different question of a witness or spent just a few more hours digging through documents looking for exhibits, the outcome would have been different and the innocent would be free.

Hasan did not decline to plead guilty because he thought there was a chance that he would be found innocent.

In addition, criminal defendants would be presumed innocent, a new legal standard in Mexico.

"I allowed her to go, thinking it would be an innocent thing," said the girl's mother, Roxanna Green, 45.

Priests would be presumed innocent and brought before church tribunals made up of priests trained in canon law.