unconvicted
- a word derived from convicted.
Example Sentences
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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
So the kind of punishment for unconvicted conduct that we’re talking about is potentially very, very common.
From Slate • Jun. 17, 2020
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
The unconvicted prisoners of 1299 and 1300, whom it had held in defiance of the reiterated orders of Clement—at least those who had not rotted to death in its dungeons—were brought forth and disposed of.
From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II by Lea, Henry Charles
