culpability

Kopaniarz was told by a judge his "deliberate and unconscionable decision" to dispose of his phone, was the "action of a desperate man trying to minimise your culpability".

I dig that kind of culpability: a film that doesn’t point sanctimonious fingers but insists we’re all to blame.

The judge said it was a case of "high culpability" and that the appropriate tariff is one of 24 years.

They said that the judge would also consider "whether the offender pleaded guilty, the level of culpability, the offender's previous convictions, and any other aggravating or mitigating factors".

Sheriff Sharp said this was the first time the company had faced prosecution and she had been persuaded that "the culpability is low".