vote guilty

Frequency: 5.03.1 per million words

Used by a jury to decide on the guilt of a defendant.

guiltyVERB + guilty

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vote

Examples (10)

  • After days of deliberation, the jury finally decided to vote guilty.
  • It takes a lot of courage for a jury to vote guilty in such a high-profile case.
  • The foreman announced that eleven jurors would vote guilty.
  • If even one juror refuses to vote guilty, it results in a hung jury.
  • Why did the jury vote guilty so quickly?
  • The evidence presented was so overwhelming that the jury had no choice but to vote guilty.
  • She was shocked when she heard the jury was preparing to vote guilty.
  • A majority of the jurors seemed inclined to vote guilty from the beginning.
  • The decision to vote guilty must be unanimous to secure a conviction.
  • The judge reminded the jurors of their duty before they went to vote guilty or not guilty.