incriminating fact

Smith was obsessive about not committing incriminating facts to paper.

The incriminating facts, typewritten to the finest detail, had remained.

It followed that there were facts to find out, incriminating facts important enough to risk murder to keep quiet.

"He's not really disclosing an incriminating fact and then claiming a privilege as to related facts," Professor Kamisar said.

At issue was whether a voluntary admission of incriminating facts in response to police statements constituted a waiver of this right to counsel.

Like a priest hearing confessions, he learns or deduces incriminating facts about his police patients that he cannot divulge to concerned authorities like district attorneys.

(As it is, I have had to disguise the more incriminating facts: 33 is simply the number I favor at roulette; eighty-seven dollars, the going price for a blank ring.)

Although he is too honest not to provide all the incriminating facts about Darlington, Stevens is still so caught up in his own dream of serving a gentleman of international renown that he keeps trying to paint away the blemishes in his Lordship's portrait.

After she decides to investigate the murder that is the centerpiece of the new musical "Nick and Nora," Nora Charles carries a tiny notebook and gold pen with her at all times so she can jot down the incriminating facts and the telltale details.