guilty person
Example Sentences
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"A guilty person does not say 'keep testing, test this, test that'."
From BBC ● Jan. 19, 2026
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
“All confessions that were given, at the time of the detective’s interview, were both vetted and corroborated based off of intimate knowledge of the crime only a guilty person would know,” he said.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 25, 2021
"The guilty person probably took them," Nancy decided.
From "Case of the Sneaky Snowman: Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew, #5" by Carolyn Keene
