Example sentences of "was found guilty on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jones was found guilty on a disrepute charge after the FA decided his involvement in a controversial video , ‘ Soccer 's Hard Men ’ , tarnished the game 's image . |
| 2 | Williams was found guilty on 11 September 1991 on three charges relating to deserting his regiment and speaking out against the Gulf War . |
| 3 | On February 11 this year , after a two-week trial , Iain was found guilty on all counts and sentenced to detention for life . |
| 4 | Former National Security Adviser John M. Poindexter , 53 , was found guilty on April 7 on all five felony counts arising from his role in the Iran-contra affair . |
| 5 | Jefferies also gave evidence in the case of James Sherwin , vice-chairman of GAF Corp. , who was found guilty on Dec. 13 of stock manipulation . |
| 6 | Jerry Richardson , the coach of the so-called " Mandela United Football Team " which had acted as a bodyguard to Winnie Mandela , was found guilty on May 25 of 11 charges , including the murder of a young ANC activist " Stompie " Moeketsie Seipei in Soweto in late December 1989 [ see p. 36452 ] . |
| 7 | After a 14-month trial , Udo Proksch , the owner of Vienna 's most famous coffee house and a former confidant of some of the country 's leading politicians , was found guilty on March 11 of the murder of six crew members of the cargo ship Lucona , which blew up off the Maldives in January 1977 . |
| 8 | Stoyan Ovcharov , who had been removed as Minister of Economy and Planning and as a candidate member of the former Bulgarian Communist Party politburo immediately after the fall from power of Todor Zhivkov in November 1989 , was found guilty on June 6 of " taking undue advantage of his authority in favour of a third person " to the detriment of the state . |
| 9 | The alleged head of the Patriarca " family " — reputed to be a component of the Mafia — was found guilty on Aug. 8 on racketeering charges which carried a maximum sentence ranging from 40 to 80 years . |
| 10 | Col. Guillermo Alfredo Benavides was found guilty on Sept. 28 of ordering the murders of six Jesuit priests , their housekeeper and her daughter in November 1989 [ see pp. 37037-38 ; 37181 ; 37957 ] . |
| 11 | The former mayor of Nice , Jacques Médecin , was found guilty on Jan. 6 of misusing public funds and was sentenced in absentia to one year 's imprisonment , ordered to pay nearly F2,500,000 ( about US$480,000 ) in fines and civil damages , and barred from holding public office for life . |
| 12 | Bankrupt former entrepreneur Alan Bond was found guilty on May 29 of acting dishonestly while attempting in 1987 to organize the rescue of the Perth merchant bank , Rothwells Ltd. ; on May 30 he was sentenced to 2 & 1/2 years in prison . |
| 13 | He was found guilty on 25 separate counts of buggery and gross indecency on six boys , amid scenes of uproar from distressed relatives of his victims . |