The same panel will decide guilt or innocence and, if necessary, fix the sentence.
Deciding guilt in an offender was more important than the nature of the offense.
It is customary to say that a judge and jury will decide guilt.
Of course, it is for the jurors to decide guilt or innocence.
Congress's function, quite different from deciding criminal guilt or innocence, is to determine fitness for office.
Court judges, not juries, decided guilt or innocence in court cases, and the defense rights of the accused were limited.
The Dallas policy did not detail procedures for deciding guilt.
Let them and history decide my innocence or guilt.
A majority of the judges on the panel would then decide guilt or innocence.
In the first phase, a jury, as in any other criminal case, decides guilt or innocence.