convicted
adjective
proven or declared guilty of an offense, especially after a legal trial.
unconvicted
-
a word derived from
convicted.
Example Sentences
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Otherwise, she said, forced medication for competence restoration “opens the door to so many abuses,” where individuals accused of nonviolent crimes get stuck in the system for years, untreated and unconvicted.
From Slate ● Jun. 15, 2022
She stayed there for the next couple weeks, unable to pay for bail, and with no access to pretrial services that exist today in many other jurisdictions meant to keep unconvicted defendants out of jail.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 23, 2022
He added that every decision they took was under threat of persecution, that they were never able fully to be themselves and that they were living, in effect, as unconvicted felons.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 13, 2018
In America, jails are distinct from prisons in that they hold people who are pre-trial and therefore unconvicted.
From BBC ● May 19, 2011
It might be thought that this was an indication of the decay of superstition, even in Ireland, however much to be condemned as an outburst of feeling against unconvicted and even untried persons.
From The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology by Edwin Sidney Hartland
