2020年8月31日 · In court the judge may state the crime of which the defendant is accused, and the defendant will answer 'Guilty' or 'Not Guilty'. Guilty means 'Yes I did it', and Not Guilty means 'No I did not do it'. This has become a colloquialism in modern English in which replying 'Guilty' (or Not guilty) to a question means an affirmative or negative answer.

2021年4月14日 · Quoting the Wiktionary definition of the phrase guilty as charged: (literally, law) Guilty to the same extent as one is charged; guilty to all the court's accusations. (by extension) Truly, indeed, verily responsible for having done something. The exclamation "Guilty!" has the same two meanings: The literal one admitting that you committed a crime.

2022年6月3日 · If, at the end of the trial, the accused person has been found not guilty, or if they have been found (or have pleaded) guilty, but have not received a custodial sentence, then they will still go back down the same staircase, only this time they will be processed for release by the prison officers or security guards.

2021年2月9日 · In the English legal system and others based upon it, the defendant is asked to specify whether they are "guilty" or "not guilty" of what they are accused of. The judge asks them how they plead. Their response (or plea) is either "guilty" or "not guilty".

2018年5月30日 · That verdict is 'guilty', 'not guilty' [or in some jurisdictions some variant of 'not proven' is a potential 3rd option] Only if the verdict brought is 'guilty' is the defendant convicted of the crime. You first example has a slight variation - 'how a death happened' That couldn't in itself result in any conviction, as no-one at that point is ...

2024年4月2日 · And this is a very context-dependent idiom. It does not necessarily imply a direction of travel. I can be a direction of opinion (for versus against something). Or the direction of stock prices, for instance. If you expect stock prices to go up, but instead they go down, you could say "stock prices zigged instead of zagged."

2020年5月8日 · We say that 's means "is" or "has" and forget that it can mean "does". Some answers and comments wrongly regard this usage as incorrect or as dialect. It is an informal usage but it is neither incorrect not dialectal.

2023年1月8日 · Even dictionaries will use 'coincidentally' to mean 'at the same time', where in casual usage, a coincidence is something that appears related, or even some kind of cause and effect, but isn't necessarily.

2021年3月27日 · Adam: We all know he's guilty, it's just he has not been found guilty, yet. Bob: You're right, Adam, he has not been found guilty yet, so don't go stringing him up just yet. Legal Term. He has been found "not guilty". Using the legal term "not guilty" specifies that the court has made a decision and the decision is "not guilty".

What does "guilty" mean in this context? Aug 31, 2020. 42. Difference between "detonate" and "explode"