Below you will find example sentences with "guilty verdict". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Guilty Verdict in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: guilty
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 10
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 28.3 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 5 start, 7 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "guilty verdict" has 2 words and usually appears near the end in these examples. The average sentence has 28.3 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as a not guilty verdict, a unanimous guilty verdict after three, jury, court and trial stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with pleaded guilty, guilty plea, proven guilty, pleaded guilty and guilty plea, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with guilty verdict
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
As the clerk read the second not-guilty verdict, she was interrupted. (12 words)
It should have been either another hung jury or a not-guilty verdict. (13 words)
A 10-year trial has ended in NOT GUILTY Verdict for three men in Fox Hill Massacre! (17 words)
In court, after a jury of seven women and five men came to a unanimous guilty verdict after three hours and 48 minutes of deliberation, following a three-and-a-half week trial at Liverpool Crown Court, his previous crimes were laid bare. (43 words)
In a number of those cases, the defendants said they pleaded guilty to lesser charges, leading to incarceration, having felt the evidence of Matshes’ autopsy results would surely mean a guilty verdict for the more serious offence of second-degree murder. (41 words)
In her appeal, Owens argued – and the State concedes – that in light of the jury’s finding that she was guilty of voluntary manslaughter, the trial court should have vacated the jury’s guilty verdict on the felony murder charged. (40 words)
A 10-year trial has ended in NOT GUILTY Verdict for three men in Fox Hill Massacre! (17 words)
Example sentences (20)
Nor did his brother, William Cook, who told investigators at the crime scene: "I ain't got nothing to do with this." citation Verdict and sentence The jury delivered a unanimous guilty verdict after three hours of deliberations.
In a number of those cases, the defendants said they pleaded guilty to lesser charges, leading to incarceration, having felt the evidence of Matshes’ autopsy results would surely mean a guilty verdict for the more serious offence of second-degree murder.
To answer that question, we have to look at what the witnesses might or might not be able to contribute to the senators’ task of returning a guilty or not guilty verdict.
In the previous year 4.8 per cent of rape cases led to a guilty verdict or a guilty plea, and it was 7.2 per cent the year before that.
In her appeal, Owens argued – and the State concedes – that in light of the jury’s finding that she was guilty of voluntary manslaughter, the trial court should have vacated the jury’s guilty verdict on the felony murder charged.
In some jurisdictions, following the pre-trial hearing to determine the extent of the disorder, the defence of "not guilty by reason of insanity" may be used to get a not guilty verdict.
A 10-year trial has ended in NOT GUILTY Verdict for three men in Fox Hill Massacre!
After delivering a guilty verdict, the judge ordered that a social inquiry report be prepared prior to sentencing.
A guilty verdict, however, could further jeopardize his career, which was frozen in place by the charges.
A guilty verdict on this charge could lead to a significant fine, estimated to be at least $250 million.
A jury has reached an unanimous guilty verdict following the five-week murder trial of Lori Vallow Daybell, accused of killing two of her children in a doomsday plot.
As the clerk read the second not-guilty verdict, she was interrupted.
He subsequently passed a guilty verdict on them and sentenced Agbabiaka, Oyeniyi, Ojonla and Oluajo to five years imprisonment for conspiracy and advance-free fraud.
In court, after a jury of seven women and five men came to a unanimous guilty verdict after three hours and 48 minutes of deliberation, following a three-and-a-half week trial at Liverpool Crown Court, his previous crimes were laid bare.
In the first accused person Gregory Afoko’s case, the court ordered Afoko’s retrial after the jury returned a 4:3 not guilty verdict in his favour on both counts of conspiracy and murder.
It should have been either another hung jury or a not-guilty verdict.
Little did prosecutors expect that the appeal judge would throw the case out, not because Hogg’s sentence was too soft, but because she ruled the original guilty verdict was a “miscarriage of justice”.
Members of the 15-year-old's family left the public gallery when the guilty verdict was delivered at Liverpool Crown Court on Thursday, January 19, and the boy slammed a door as he stormed out of the dock.
Mr Wright told the jury that if his alibi, that he was at home with his parents when Ashley was killed, "might be true" then they must reach a not guilty verdict.
Smith is using lies and leaks to engineer a guilty verdict in court and in the public square.