guilty person

“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.

"The guilty person probably took them," Nancy decided.

"What happened with the daughters of Manipur can never be forgiven," he said, adding that no guilty person would be spared.

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.

When an innocent person languishes in prison, a guilty person goes free.