A week later, he pleaded guilty to a charge of leaving an accident and was given a two-month suspended sentence.

VOA: special.2009.09.13

Second,he could not be guilty of plotting a slave rebellion, because he had never incited slaves against their owners.

VOA: special.2009.07.02

To some people,they are nothing more than a harmless treat or a guilty pleasure to enjoy from time to time.

VOA: special.2010.04.12

Jurors must find a defendant not guilty even if they are not completely sure the person is innocent of any crime.

VOA: special.2009.08.31

The trial found high school teacher John Scopes guilty of violating a state law banning the teaching of evolution.

VOA: special.2009.12.01

First,they said, he could not be guilty of treason against Virginia, because he was not a citizen of Virginia.

VOA: special.2009.07.02

A Pfizer division, Pharmacia & Upjohn, agreed to plead guilty to a criminal violation over the painkiller Bextra.

VOA: special.2009.09.11

He decreed that anyone found guilty of using the word Frisco must pay a penalty of twenty-five dollars.

VOA: special.2009.12.14

He did not answer the charges himself but his lawyers entered a plea of not guilty.

VOA: special.2010.01.09

It is also a warning that no one will be protected from being found guilty.

VOA: special.2010.01.17

Of the eight, only one was found guilty, and only in a very limited way.

VOA: special.2010.06.03

A jury found Ralph Cioffi and Matthew Tannin not guilty of lying to investors.

VOA: special.2009.11.20

A person receives a bum rap if he is found guilty of a crime.

VOA: special.2010.02.21

He pleaded guilty to leaving the scene and received a suspended sentence.

VOA: special.2009.08.29

A grand jury found him not guilty of any crime.

VOA: special.2010.02.25

A judge found Coxey guilty of violating public property.

VOA: special.2010.06.24

The arrests came as a Pakistani-American,David Headley, pleaded not guilty to terrorism charges in a U.S.court in Chicago on Wednesday.

VOA: standard.2009.12.11

He was found guilty by a Paris court of laundering about $2 million worth of illegal drug money.

VOA: standard.2010.07.07

The prosecution had argued that Kasab changed his plea from innocent to guilty to secure a more-lenient sentence.

VOA: standard.2009.07.23

Non-stop media coverage climaxed on June 22,when Chris Brown pleaded guilty to a charge of felony assault.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

"I don't think anyone disputes that. Hasn't he been offering and begging to plead guilty in his military commissions trial for a long time?

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

it says clearly that Israel is guilty of massive human rights violations and a number of crimes that are already listed in a mandate,"

VOA: standard.2009.11.06

The government denies the charges. Many of the demonstrators, like Ridwan Laodabone with a Muslim student organization, already consider the vice president and finance minister guilty.

VOA: standard.2009.12.10

Posner says the UN Council is guilty of engaging in a double standard.

VOA: standard.2009.10.03

The former top cop and president of the International Criminal Police Organization,INTERPOL, was found guilty last month of taking bribes totaling more than $160,000 during a five-year period beginning in 2000.

VOA: standard.2010.08.03

KBR,the former engineering subsidiary of Halliburton, pleaded guilty in February to charges it paid $180 million in bribes to win a $6 billion contract to build a liquefied natural gas plant in southern Nigeria.

VOA: standard.2009.04.18