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Synonyms for convict

find guilty

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Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Synonyms for convict

a person serving a sentence in a jail or prison

a person who has been convicted of a criminal offense

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The convicted terrorists were responsible for killing 62, including five citizens, 11 police officials and 46 Frontier Constabulary/armed forces personnel, the military's media wing added.
The highest ranked officer to be convicted since 2012 was West Yorkshire's Det Chief Supt David Knopwood for drink driving, according to the figures obtained under the Freedom of Information Act.
Wan Arnudawati, 39, of Walsall Street, Canley, was convicted in his absence of keeping a vehicle which did not meet insurance requirements.
Tobie Arnott, 41, of Moorland Road, Splott, Cardiff, was fined pounds 350 with pounds 60 costs and a pounds 15 victim surcharge after being convicted of using a TV without a licence.
Only twelve of the 112 were not convicted of some kind of larceny; three-quarters were single; nearly the same proportion were under thirty-one years old; most were skilled workers; only seven of them were illiterate; 91 per cent were Protestant and more than half were from the bigger cities.
But local citizens lobbied to have the charge reduced and he was convicted of manslaughter, sentenced to five years and released after a year.
Actual Innocence by Barry Scheck, Peter Neufeld, and Jim Dwyer explores the science of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) analysis and examines its importance not only as a crime-fighting tool but as a truth-finding tool that has assisted in winning the freedom of dozens of people who were wrongfully convicted of crimes that they never committed.
Neufeld and Scheck recommend that biological evidence from a crime scene be preserved at least as long as an inmate convicted for that crime on the basis of that evidence is in prison--a point on which Virginia's Ferrara concurs.
In recent months, there has been a spate of prisoners awaiting execution on death row being set free because tests or new witnesses have proved others guilty of the crimes that the now free men were convicted of.
The convicted terrorists have been identified as Ain Ullah, Naik Wali, Fazal Manan, Rehmat Zada, Zaid Muhammad,Naimat Ullah, Maseen Zada, Muhammad Rehman, Azmat Ullah, Muhammad Raqeem and Ikram Khan.
He recalled that the convict had been convicted severally and jailed for offences bothering on stealing before he went to the shop of the complainant, Mrs Adeleke Adenle with the pretence to buy sewing materials.
ISLAMABAD -- The Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected the appeals filed by three convicted militants of the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) against the 14-year prison sentence handed down to each of them.
HYDERABAD -- An Anti Terrorism Court here Thursday convicted 2 persons with death penalty in a criminal case of killing a policeman in Thatta district.
The convicted Liaquat was charged with attacking a journalist, while Shafqaat and Shah were accused of killing a lawyer, Arshad Ali, in Lahore.
According to ISPR press release, the convicted terrorists were involved in attacks on citizens and personnel of police and armed forces, and other terrorist activities.