History Hop Tags - Guilty

1140-06-03

French scholar Peter Abelard is found guilty of heresy.

1490-01-04

Anna of Brittany announces that all those who would ally with the king of France will be considered guilty of the crime of lese-majesty.

1675-01-31

Cornelia/Dina Olfaarts found not guilty of witchcraft

1720-11-28

Anne Bonny and Mary Read are tried, found guilty of pirating, and sentenced to death in Spanish Town, Jamaica, although their discovered pregnancies won them stays of execution

1776-04-15

Duchess of Kingston found guilty of bigamy

1788-01-28

Lord Gordon found guilty of libel of queen of France

1856-05-27

Doctor William Palmer found guilty of poisoning

1865-06-30

8 alleged conspirators in assassination of Lincoln are found guilty

1902-03-25

In Russia, 567 students are tried for rioting and 'political disaffection' are found guilty; 95 are banished to Siberia

1902-10-10

American outlaw Tom Horn's murder trial begins, and he is eventually found guilty and sentenced to death

1921-08-02

Chicago jury brings in not guilty verdict against the Black Sox

1924-09-10

Leopold & Loeb found guilty of murder

1925-07-21

"Monkey Trial" ends - John Scopes found guilty of teaching Darwinism

1925-07-24

John T Scopes found guilty of teaching evolution in the "Scopes monkey trial", Dayton, Tennessee, fined $100 & costs

1927-01-15

The Tennessee Supreme Court overturns (on a technicality) John T Scopes' guilty verdict for teaching evolution — but the law itself remains in force

1935-02-13

Bruno Hauptmann found guilty of kidnap & murder of Lindbergh infant

1946-09-30

22 Nazi leaders found guilty of war crimes at Nuremberg

1948-09-24

Mildred Gillars (Axis Sally), an American broadcaster employed by the Third Reich in Nazi Germany to proliferate propaganda during World War II, pleads not guilty to eight chargs of treason in Washington, DC

1950-01-21

NY jury finds former State Dept official Alger Hiss guilty of perjury

1950-01-28

Preston Tucker, auto maker, found not guilty of mail fraud

1961-12-09

SS Col Adolf Eichmann found guilty of war crimes in Israel

1961-12-11

Adolf Eichmann is found guilty of war crimes, in Israel

1964-06-21

Beckwith arrested for murder of Medger Evers, found guilty 30 yr later

1965-10-28

Pope Paul VI proclaims Jews not collectively guilty for crucifixion

1966-02-14

Writers Andrei Sinjavski & Joeij Daniel found guilty

1969-03-04

The Kray brothers, Ronald and Reginald, London East End gang bosses, are found guilty of murder. Both will die in captivity.

1969-03-10

James Earl Ray pleads guilty to murder of Martin Luther King Jr

1969-07-25

Edward Kennedy pleads guilty to leaving scene of an accident a week after the Chappaquiddick car accident that killed Mary Jo Kopechne

1970-03-26

Peter Yarrow (Peter, Paul & Mary) plead guilty to "taking immoral liberties" with a 14 year old girl

1970-07-02

Neil Blaney is found not guilty of illegal arms importation to the Irish Republican Army by a Dublin jury

1970-09-20

Jim Morrison found not guilty of "lewd" behavior

1970-10-23

Charles Haughey and two others are found not guilty of illegal arms importation by a Dublin jury; the 'Arms Trial' began on 28 May 1970

1971-03-29

1st Lt William L Calley Jr found guilty in My Lai (Vietnam) massacre

1973-01-15

4 Watergate burglars plead guilty in federal court

1973-01-30

Jury finds Watergate defendants Liddy & McCord guilty on all counts

1975-11-26

US Federal jury finds Lynette Fromme guilty of attempted assassination

1975-12-12

Sara Jane Moore pled guilty to trying to kill US President Gerald Ford

1976-08-31

George Harrison found guilty of plagiarising "My Sweet Lord"

1976-09-07

US courts find George Harrison guilty of plagiarism (He's So Fine)

1977-05-08

David Berkowitz pleads guilty in "Son of Sam" 44-caliber shootings

1978-02-01

Director Roman Polanski skips bail & fled to France after pleading guilty to charges of engaging in sex with a 13-year-old girl

1978-08-31

Emily & William Harris plead guilty to 1974 kidnapping of Patty Hearst

1979-06-11

Chuck Berry pleads guilty to income tax evasion, sentenced to 4 months

1980-03-12

Jury finds John Wayne Gacy guilty of murdering 33 in Chicago

1980-10-25

Barbra Streisand's "Guilty" album goes #1 for 3 weeks & her single "Woman In Love," goes #1 for 3 weeks

1980-12-03

NY Federal jury finds Reps Thompson D-NJ & Murphy, D-NY, guilty

1981-06-22

Mark David Chapman pleads guilty to killing John Lennon

1982-02-27

Wayne Williams found guilty of murdering 2 of 28 blacks in Atlanta

1982-06-21

John Hinckley found not guilty of 1981 attempted assassination of President Reagan by reason of insanity

1982-10-19

Automaker John DeLorean arrested on cocaine charges (Not guilty)

1985-11-11

Yonkers is found guilty of segregating schools & housing

1986-06-04

Jonathan Pollard, spy for Israel, pleads guilty in US court

1988-12-28

US 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals affirms Yonkers is guilty of racism

1989-01-29

L I preacher Gene Profeta pleads guilty to tax-evasion

1989-01-30

Joel Steinberg found guilty of 1st degree manslaughter of daughter

1989-05-30

Margaret Ray pleads guilty to breaking into David Letterman's house

1989-06-30

Congressman Lukins found guilty of having sex with a 16 year old girl

1989-09-11

Drexel formally pleads guilty to security fraud

1990-01-16

2 Bank of Credit & Commerce members plea guilty to money laundering

1990-04-07

John Poindexter (Natl Sec Advisor) found guilty on Iran-Contra scandal

1990-04-20

Pete Rose pleads guilty to hiding $300,000 in income

1990-04-24

Security law violator Michael Milken pleads guilty to 6 felonies

1990-07-02

Imelda Marcos & Adnan Khashoggi found not guilty of racketeering

1990-07-30

Five Bank of Credit & Commerce members found guilty of money laundering

1990-10-03

Florida record store owner Charles Freeman is found guilty of obsenity, for selling 2 Live Crew rap records

1990-12-05

Former Noriega aide Luis del Cid pleads guilty

1991-03-22

Pamela Smart (HS teacher) found guilty in NH of manipulating her student-lover to kill her husband

1991-03-30

William Kennedy Smith allegedly rapes a woman (found not guilty)

1991-05-09

Italian actress Laura Antonelli found guilty of cocaine possession

1991-12-05

Charles Keating Jr (Lincoln Savings & Loan fraud), found guilty

1991-12-11

William Kennedy Smith found not guilty of rape

1992-01-13

US serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer pleads guilty but insane

1992-01-27

Mike Tyson goes on trial for rape (he is found guilty)

1992-02-15

Jeffrey Dahmer found sane & guilty of killing 15 boys

1992-02-19

Porn producer Jim Mitchell found guilty of killing his brother Artie

1992-04-02

John Gotti found guilty of five murders (Paul Castellano, Thomas Bilotti, Robert DiBernardo, Liborio Milito and Louis Dibono), conspiracy to murder Gaetano "Corky" Vastola, loansharking, illegal gambling, obstruction of justice, bribery and tax evasion.

1992-04-09

US Fed court finds Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega guilty of drugs

1993-04-16

Jury reaches guilty verdict in Federal case against police officer who beat Rodney King, but the verdict is not read until April 17th

1993-04-17

Police officers found guilty of violating Rodney Kings civil rights

1993-06-22

Wilson Pickett plead guilty to auto assault due to drunk driving

1993-09-27

Actor Daniel Day Lewis pleads guilty to speeding charges

1994-03-04

4 Arab terrorist founded guilty of bombing the World Trade Center

1994-03-16

Tonya Harding pleads guilty to felony attack on Nancy Kerrigan

1994-04-06

Chuck Jones found guilty of breaking into Marla Maples home

1994-04-07

Singer Percy Sledge pleads guilty to tax evasion

1994-04-28

Aldrich Ames, former CIA officer & wife Rosario plead guilty to spying

1994-05-09

Mass murderer Joel Rifkind found guilty in NY

1994-07-22

OJ Simpson pleads "Absolutely 100% Not Guilty" of murder

1994-12-02

Jury finds Heidi Fleiss guilty of running a call girl ring

1994-12-18

Darryl Strawberry pleads not guilty on tax evasion charges

1995-02-17

Colin Fergusson found guilty of killing 6 people on the Long Island Rail Road in NY

1995-07-22

Susan Smith found guilty of drowning her two children in South Carolina

1995-09-12

INXS' Michael Hutchence pleads guilty to punching a photographer

1995-10-03

OJ Simpson found not guilty in murder of Nicole Simpson & Ron Goldman in Los Angeles, California

1995-11-22

Rosemary West found guilty in England of killing 10 women

1996-03-20

Erik & Lyle Menendez found guilty of killing their parents

1996-05-13

OJ Simpson appears on British TV discussing his not guilty verdict

1997-02-10

Lemrick Nelson found guilty in the fatal stabbing on Hasidic Jew Yankel Rosenbaum in Crown Heights Brooklyn in 1991

1997-02-28

FBI agent Earl Pitts pleads guilty to selling secrets to Russia

1997-04-09

Cleve Indians closer Jose Mesa found guilty of rape

1997-05-27

Judge finds Pamela Lee not guilty of breaking a contract

1997-05-29

Jesse Timmedequas found guilty of rape/murder of Megan Kanka, 7

1997-06-02

Timothy McVeigh found guilty of 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, killing 168

1997-07-25

Autumn Jackson, found guilty of trying to extort $40M from Bill Cosby

1997-07-25

Carroll O'Connor found not guilty of slandering Harry Perzigian

1997-07-25

Vincent "The Chin" Gigante found guilty of racketeering in NYC

1997-09-22

Marv Albert pleads not guilty to sexual charges

1997-10-20

Richard Gnida, Limo driver in Detroit Red Wings crash, pleads guilty

1997-11-10

Artist Peter Max pleads guilty to tax fraud & time served

1997-12-23

Terry Nichols found guilty of manslaughter in Oklahoma bombing

1998-01-09

Boston Red Sox Mo Vaughn pleads not guilty to drunken driving

1998-01-14

Charles Barkley pleads not guilty to an assault charge

1998-02-26

Oprah Winfrey found not guilty in beef defamation trial brought by Texas cattlemen

1998-08-21

P.W. Botha found guilty of contempt for repeatedly ignoring subpoenas to testify before South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

1998-09-02

The UN's International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda finds Jean-Paul Akayesu, the former mayor of a small town in Rwanda, guilty of nine counts of genocide.

1999-03-26

A jury in Michigan finds Dr. Jack Kevorkian guilty of second-degree murder for administering a lethal injection to a terminally ill man.

2000-08-18

A Federal jury finds the US EPA guilty of discrimination against Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, under the Civil Rights Act of 1964, later inspiring passage of the No FEAR Act.

2002-07-15

"American Taliban" John Walker Lindh pleads guilty to supplying aid to the enemy and to possession of explosives during the commission of a felony.

2003-12-17

The Soham murder trial ends at the Old Bailey in London, with Ian Huntley found guilty of two counts of murder. His girlfriend Maxine Carr is found guilty of perverting the course of justice.

2004-05-26

The United States Army veteran Terry Nichols is found guilty of 161 state murder charges for helping carry out the Oklahoma City bombing.

2006-07-27

The Federal Republic of Germany is deemed guilty in the loss of Bashkirian 2937 and DHL Flight 611, because it is illegal to outsource flight surveillance.

2007-03-06

Former White House aide I. Lewis Libby, Jr. is found guilty on four of five counts of perjury and obstruction of justice trial.

2008-10-03

OJ Simpson found guilty of charges of kidnapping and armed robbery

2009-08-04

Kim Jong-il meets former president Bill Clinton. He pardons and releases captured American journalists Euna Lee and Laura Ling who were found guilty of entering the country illegally.

2011-03-22

Lawrence Taylor pleads guilty for misdemeanors of sexual misconduct and is sentenced to six years probation

2012-08-24

Both Apple and Samsung are found guilty of patent infringement in a South Korean court

2012-08-24

A US jury in California finds that Samsung is guilty of patent infringement and awards over US$1 billion in damages to Apple

2012-10-06

Paolo Gabriele, Pope Benedict XVI's butler, is found guilty of leaking confidential documents and is sentenced to 18 months imprisonment

2013-08-12

Whitey Bulger is found guilty on 31 of 32 counts, and is found to have been involved in 11 murders

2014-09-11

South African athlete Oscar Pistorius is found not guilty of murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp (and is later found guilty of culpable homicide)

2014-11-11

The captain of the South Korean ferry which sank in April is found guilty of gross negligence and sentenced to 36 years in prison

2015-12-01

US Marine found guilty of killing transgender woman in Philippines

2016-11-05

Chris Christie aides found guilty of 'Bridgegate' lane closures

2016-12-16

Dylann Roof Found Guilty in Charleston Church Massacre

2017-01-11

Volkswagen's Tentative $4.3 Billion Deal With US Includes Guilty Plea on Emissions

2017-04-11

Alabama governor resigns, pleads guilty to misdemeanors

2018-02-24

Ex-Trump aide Gates pleads guilty in deal with special counsel

1866-05-11

Henry Carvill, Guilty of Love

1869-01-02

Bayard Veiller, Guilty Hands

1878-03-05

Ranger Bill Miller, Guilty

1892-03-29

József Cardinal Mindszenty, Guilty of Treason

1892-10-21

Eloyce Gist, Verdict Not Guilty

1907-05-30

Elliott Rothe, The Guilty Generation

1915-02-28

J.N. Harris, One of Our Men Is Guilty

1920-06-12

Ruth Manning, Guilty Conscience

1930-01-04

Iain Cuthbertson, British actor (Guilty, Scandal, Rep, Danger UXB)

1932-02-12

Richard Rougier, Stephen Fry: Guilty

1936-03-19

Richard DeDomenico, Find Me Guilty

1937-03-16

Angela D'Ambrosia, Guilty Until Proven Innocent

1937-06-06

John Horn, Guilty by Suspicion

1937-9-20

Billy Cerone, Guilty Conscience

1941-10-12

Michael Mansfield, Presumed Guilty

1944-02-22

Robert Kardashian, Absolutely 100% Guilty

1948-07-18

Martin Arsenault, Guilty by Suspicion

1949-08-19

Frankie Perrone, Find Me Guilty

1950-08-02

Lance Ito, Absolutely 100% Guilty

1950-08-27

James Bird, Guilty Hearts

1951-08-17

Bob DeBrino, Find Me Guilty

1959-05-19

Nicole Brown Simpson, Absolutely 100% Guilty

1968-05-26

Pat Kenney, ECW Guilty as Charged 2001

1968-05-30

Zacarias Moussaoui, French citizen found guilty relating to September 11, 2001 attacks

1968-11-19

Govind Armstrong, Guilty Pleasures

1970-12-18

Rob Van Dam, ECW Guilty as Charged 2001

1973-08-14

Daisuke Ishiwatari, Guilty Gear X2

1973-9-12

Howard Gibson, Guilty by Association

1974-06-28

Miki Mizuno, Guilty of Romance

1975-10-07

Terry Gerin, ECW Guilty as Charged 2001

1976-11-05

Tetsuro Araki, Guilty Crown

1979-04-11

Corrie Milsted, The Guilty

1980-06-26

Einav Markel, Born Guilty

1980-06-29

Kane Black, The Guilty

1984-01-03

Alexander Rosenkreuz, The Guilty

1985-06-04

David Coussins, Born Guilty

1986-01-08

Noel Davis Poyner, Guilty Pleasures

1986-03-05

Constantin von Jascheroff, I Am Guilty

1989-05-30

Ryûju Kobayashi, Guilty of Romance

1999-02-09

Adrianna Bertola, A Guilty Mind: Part I

2002-9-24

Jordan Jarvis, Guilty

1939-11-12

Ranger Bill Miller, Guilty

1941-03-11

Henry Carvill, Guilty of Love

1943-01-16

Bayard Veiller, Guilty Hands

1983-03-31

Stephen Murray, actor (Guilty, Silent Dust, Master Spy), dies at 70

1989-04-03

Norman Woolard, actor (Guilty, Saul & David, Medeleine), dies at 79

1989-07-19

Vivian Reed, The Guilty Man

1992-09-23

Martin Arsenault, actor (Guilty by Suspicion), dies of an ulcer

1992-09-23

Martin Arsenault, Guilty by Suspicion

1994-06-12

Nicole Brown Simpson, Absolutely 100% Guilty

1996-07-09

Melvin Belli, Guilty or Innocent

2003-09-30

Robert Kardashian, Absolutely 100% Guilty

2004-11-19

Ruth Manning, Guilty Conscience

2006-04-27

Angela D'Ambrosia, Guilty Until Proven Innocent

2007-10-25

Richard Rougier, Stephen Fry: Guilty