Example sentences of "found guilty " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Praise The Lord ’ Bakker found guilty on all counts |
| 2 | He said that one would not expect a person found guilty of treating their own child cruelly to be allowed their liberty at once . |
| 3 | JOHAN TUMBA , the Swedish professional found guilty of cheating and banned for 10 years in January , had the sentence reduced to three years on appeal yesterday . |
| 4 | Three other men found guilty of riot were also jailed , John Spencer , 30 , for eight years , James Miller , 31 , for seven years and Tiny Doran , 25 , for four years . |
| 5 | In fact , timber felling grew to such proportions that a law was passed restricting it ; anyone found guilty of contravening this law more than three times , could be hung . |
| 6 | Of all offenders found guilty , in all courts , both magistrate and crown courts , females make up approximately 11 per cent of the total ( magistrate courts deal with relatively minor crimes and civil actions , whereas the more serious indictable offences , which can be tried by jury , are dealt with by crown courts ) . |
| 7 | Criminal acts are defined by the Home Office as ‘ those acts against the law for which the offender is caught , tried and found guilty ’ . |
| 8 | Broadly speaking , the higher an individual is in the social strata the less likely he or she is to be arrested , prosecuted and ( if prosecuted ) found guilty . |
| 9 | Obviously ‘ crimes known to the police ’ are greater than numbers of ‘ people prosecuted ’ which in turn are greater than numbers of ‘ persons found guilty ’ . |
| 10 | Three children in the North-east were taken into care and their parents and other adults were charged and found guilty of using them sexually in their rituals . |
| 11 | Persons found guilty of a corrupt or an illegal practice on prosecution therefore , or by an election court ( contesting the validity of the ‘ election ’ of a candidate ) may be disqualified . |
| 12 | He was suspended from duty and then , in November , found guilty of gross misconduct . |
| 13 | ‘ I think he was treated in a shoddy way , tried by a kangaroo court and found guilty by his own accusers . |
| 14 | In the pre-colonial Kandyan courts persons found guilty of cattle stealing were not imprisoned , but were instead required to render compensation to the injured party . |
| 15 | Smack mum found guilty of assault |
| 16 | A director found guilty of an indictable offence under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 has been disqualified from being a company director for two years ( p 102 ) . |
| 17 | Almost three years later , Mr Reed , one of the four defendants found guilty in the Blue Arrow case only to have their convictions quashed later on appeal , feels his name is finally cleared , legally at least . |
| 18 | The commuter was prosecuted , found guilty of carrying an offensive weapon , and fined . |
| 19 | She was cleared of murder but found guilty of manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility . |
| 20 | They were also all found guilty of illegally possessing firearms . |
| 21 | They were also all found guilty of illegally possessing firearms . |
| 22 | Furthermore , of the twenty-eight executives found guilty in 1961 , only seven were sent to prison , and then the maximum length of sentence was thirty days which was , of course , substantially reduced by remission . |
| 23 | The majority of executives found guilty of corporate crime not only retain their jobs or have others found for them , but also find that funds to cover their fines are somehow made available . |
| 24 | This is of course , in marked contrast to the typical experience of persons found guilty of ‘ conventional ’ crimes ( Martin and Webster 1971 ) . |
| 25 | And amongst neighbours , an executive found guilty of corporate crime continues to be regarded as ‘ upright and steadfast ; indeed , they will probably see him as solid and substantial a citizen as they themselves are ’ ( Geis 1978 : 283 ) . |
| 26 | The PCC has the power to remove practitioners found guilty of misconduct from the Register , and to restore them within the terms of the empowering Act . |
| 27 | To the physician 's consternation , he had been informed that the girl had been tried in the Shari'a ( the law of God ) courts and found guilty of fornication . |
| 28 | From the mid-sixteenth century onwards , a succession of suspects , mainly old and unsightly women , were hauled before the courts and found guilty of practising black magic . |
| 29 | The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights reported that any prison warders found guilty of beating prisoners were punished . |
| 30 | The new law increases fines for shopworkers found guilty of selling cigarettes to children to £2,500 and tightens up the previous legislation in a number of other ways . |