`` The police soon ceased to look upon either Bridget or Mr. Morse as in possession of guilty knowledge.

The Supreme Court of North Carolina ruled that the defendant had voluntarily entered the guilty plea, with knowledge of what that meant.

His confessions were somewhat different from others in that while he pled guilty to the " sum total of crimes ," he denied knowledge when it came to specific crimes.

They then order Khayman to find the witches and bring them back to Egypt so that they could use their knowledge of spirits to help them, as they feel guilty because of their thirst for blood.

His confessions were somewhat different from others in that while he pled guilty to " sum total of crimes ", he denied knowledge when it came to specific crimes.

French law at the time allowed a suspect to be arrested based on " public knowledge ", when the community agreed that a suspect was guilty.

But Buffier does not claim for these truths of common sense the absolute certainty which characterizes the knowledge we have of our own existence or the logical deductions we make from our thoughts ; they possess merely the highest probability, and the man who rejects them is to be considered a fool, though he is not guilty of a contradiction.

In Chinese mythology, Lei Gong ( 雷公 ) ( Chinese: " Duke of Thunder "), also called Lei Kung, or Lei Shen (“ Thunder God ”), is the Chinese Taoist deity who, when so ordered by heaven, punishes both earthly mortals guilty of secret crimes and evil spirits who have used their knowledge of Taoism to harm human beings.

The value of the Speculum as a contribution to our historical knowledge is but slight, for it is mainly a compilation from other writers ; while even in transcribing these the compiler is guilty of great carelessness.

At the same time, the said group of attorneys made public a formely classified report of the State's Council of Public Attorneys which asked the State to press charges at the courts for banning the MST by having it declared as an illegal organization, a task for which the report considered further investigations useless, " as it was public knowledge that the movement and its leadership were guilty of engaging in organized criminality ". The report proposed also that, in municipalities where the presence of MST activists could " cause electoral disequilibrium ", said activists ' franchise was to be withdrawn by striking them from the voters ' registry.

The reason for their ejection is that they are guilty of Original Sin, which amounts to the acquisition of knowledge.

Harding pled guilty to hindering the investigation, but said she had no prior knowledge of the attack.

" Brain fingerprinting " is a computer-based test that is designed to discover, document, and provide evidence of guilty knowledge regarding crimes, and to identify individuals with a specific training or expertise such as members of dormant terrorist cells or bomb makers.

However, when the owner himself shredded the papers without the dog's knowledge, the dog " acted just as ' guilty ' as when she herself had created the mess.

Courts of the United Kingdom have become less likely to find ministers guilty when their individual knowledge of or involvement in a crime cannot be proved.

The main plank of the prosecution case was " guilty knowledge "; in finding the body quickly despite poor conditions, Mitchell demonstrated that he already knew where it was.

Frequent complaints about paid street fundraisers include the use of aggressive or deceitful tactics, lack of knowledge of the charity, refusal to listen to a person who doesn't want to stop, the use of sarcasm or other negative language intended to make a person feel guilty if they decline to stop.

In L. A. he travels to the corrupt neighboring town of Bay City ( modeled on Santa Monica ) to interview Chris Lavery, who appears to have some kind of guilty knowledge about Crystal but will not come clean.

:( 1 ) guilty knowledge on the part of the accused ( the mens rea );

The attempt to enhance liability or shift blame by filtering data through an innocent party has been tried before, but where the conduit providing document preparation does not know more than its informants, and was not hired or paid to investigate, it is not liable in their place for using their bad facts without guilty knowledge.

On March 19, 1992, Canseco pled not guilty to charges of aggravated assault and later underwent counseling and fulfilled a community-service requirement.

Vodrey suggested several changes to Canada's anti-stalking laws in early 1995, including a reverse-onus bail clause for alleged stalkers, a provision that stalkers who kill their victims be deemed automatically guilty of first-degree murder, and a requirement that persons convicted of stalking submit their weapons and licenses to authorities.

In the past this usually constitutes the requirement of guilty Guard to ' down ' the remnants of his bottle of wine.

Fagan v Metropolitan Police Commissioner 1 QB 439, 3 All ER 442, 3 WLR 1120, 52 Cr App R 700, DC is a leading case that illustrates the requirement of concurrence ( or coincidence ) of actus reus ( Latin for " guilty act ") and mens rea ( Latin for " guilty mind ") in order to establish an offence under the criminal law of England and Wales.

There would still be plenty of moments of regret and sadness and guilty relief.

Without further inquiry, Pike jumped to the conclusion that Robinson was guilty, and, following the honorable route that would eventually lead to the dueling ground, sent a message to Robinson through his friends, demanding that he either confirm or deny his complicity.

He felt so guilty he would sometimes have nightmares about his mother.

Had he pled guilty to first-degree murder, Alford would have had the possibility of a life sentence, but avoided the death penalty.

" I just pleaded guilty because they said if I didn't, they would gas me for it ," wrote Alford in one of his appeals.

The Supreme Court held that for the plea to be accepted, the defendant must have been advised by a competent lawyer who was able to inform the individual that his best decision in the case would be to enter a guilty plea.

The Court went on to note that even if the defendant could have shown that he would not have entered a guilty plea " but for " the rationale of receiving a lesser sentence, the plea itself would not have been ruled invalid.

In inflicting it, they were guided only by their conscientious convictions of duty ; they had to take an oath that they would act biased by neither partiality nor favour ; and, in addition to this, they were bound in every case to state in their lists, opposite the name of the guilty citizen, the cause of the punishment inflicted on him, Subscriptio censoria.

If his son were guilty, he would still believe him innocent, on the basis of faith in his son ; this would violate the third subjunctive condition.

Poe tactically pled not guilty to induce dismissal, knowing he would be found guilty.

* 1490 – Anne of Brittany announces that all those who would ally with the king of France will be considered guilty of the crime of Lese-majesty.

Michael Chertoff, then-head of the criminal division of the U. S. Department of Justice, then directed the prosecutors to offer Lindh a plea bargain, to which, Lindh would plead guilty to two charges: — supplying services to the Taliban (,,, and ) and carrying an explosive during the commission of a felony ().

The principles expounded by this panel have come to be known as the M ' Naghten Rules, even though they have only gained any status by usage in the common law and M ' Naghten himself would have been found guilty if they had been applied to his trial.

In Norman times insanity was not seen as a defence in itself but a special circumstance in which the jury would deliver a guilty verdict and refer the defendant to the King for a pardon

Assuming the appropriate gravity of the charge, and all other things being equal, a guilty plea to the same charge would cause the reverse effect: An opponent at trial could introduce the plea, over a hearsay objection, as evidence to establish a certain fact.

For example, a criminal defendant charged with a felony theft charge, the conviction of which would require imprisonment in state prison, may be offered the opportunity to plead guilty to a misdemeanor theft charge, which may not carry jail time.

A 2009 study by the European Association of Law and Economics observed that innocent defendants are consistently more likely than guilty defendants to reject otherwise-favorable pleas proposals, even when theoretically disadvantageous to do so, because of perceived unfairness, and would do so even if the expected sanction would be worse if they proceeded to trial.

Because it may take months, or even years, for criminal cases to come to trial in some jurisdictions, an innocent defendant who is offered a plea bargain that includes a sentence of less time than he would otherwise spend in jail awaiting a trial may choose to accept the plea arrangement and plead guilty.

As many crimes have very narrow sentencing bands, a prosecutor often has scope to propose whatever degree of " discounted " charges, or substitution of misdemeanor rather than felony charges, to whatever extent they believe would incentivise a defendant to make a guilty plea and accept a speedy conviction, regardless of actual guilt.

In most Canadian criminal proceedings, the Crown has the ability to recommend a lighter sentence than it would seek following a guilty verdict in exchange for a guilty plea.