guilty person
Example Sentences
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He called for an investigation and for the guilty person to be removed.
From BBC • Oct. 27, 2025
“Choosing and putting my sister as the guilty person is not the right thing to do because she is innocent,” Claudia Troconis-Marmol said tearfully outside the courthouse shortly after the convictions.
From Seattle Times • May 30, 2024
Indeed, a sizeable minority viewed false acquittals as worse than false convictions; this group is willing to convict multiple innocent persons to avoid letting one guilty person go free.
From Slate • May 15, 2023
“If my work results even in one person not getting wrongly convicted, or one guilty person not going free, then it’s worth all the grief I’ve been getting,” he says.
From Science Magazine • May 12, 2022
The guilty person was a very handsome man in his early thirties.
From "Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution" by Ji-li Jiang
