guilty
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Reiner has pleaded not guilty to the stabbings and remains legally innocent unless he changes his plea or is convicted by a jury.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
They’ve pleaded not guilty, with the mother saying in an interview with investigators that she thought having a green card meant she could vote.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
That is not what happened - Mangione simply changed his plea of not guilty to guilty.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
Chauvin pleaded guilty to federal civil-rights charges and was convicted of murder in state court.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
It is dangerous, with such a firm in our midst, to be guilty even of genteel rascality.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
A guiltier pleasure is attempting to go above and beyond anything your parents may have done for you.
From Salon ● Dec. 25, 2024
This would make any nurse look guiltier with each job change.
From Science Magazine ● Jan. 18, 2023
She wrote that his “fictionalized version of me is just the tabloid conspiracy guiltier version of me.”
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 30, 2021
Other, more experienced teammates were far guiltier of errors in a higher level of schooling than being loaned to Vitesse Arnhem or the Championship.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 12, 2019
They laughed at him a little, and he squirmed and looked guiltier than ever.
From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles
So he'll continue to act like the guiltiest man alive.
From Salon ● Jan. 18, 2024
That’s a shame, because the airline’s 11 outside directors are arguably the guiltiest of the guilty parties in the company’s recent fiasco, the most deserving of obloquy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 3, 2023
A John Mitchell, the campaign director, who Mason always thought looked the guiltiest.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 19, 2018
Both Courtney and Alex would be fully within their rights to plead temporary insanity—the guiltiest party here is the wedding-industrial complex.
From Slate ● Jul. 28, 2018
Then he said the thing he knew would make her feel the guiltiest.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
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