"I must take the view, your Grace, that when a man embarks upon a crime, he is morally guilty of any other crime which may spring from it."

Found innocent, but in many respects he believed himself and maybe the war itself that he was legally innocent but morally guilty.

Because the "not proven" verdict carries with it an implication of guilt but no formal conviction, the accused is often seen as morally guilty without the option of a retrial to clear their name.

His lawyer, Slavisa Prodanovic, told reporters afterward that his client decided to plead guilty "because he feels morally guilty."

Indeed, Kerrey himself readily admits he feels morally guilty, and that he will be haunted for the rest of his life by the deaths of those civilians.

"You're comparing the lives of morally guilty persons against the lives of manifestly innocent persons," he said.

Whoever had written that wicked and lying letter was morally guilty of murder, he said.

The owners of that boat were not technically guilty of conspiracy to commit murder, but they were morally guilty of it.

"I know that I am morally guilty."

As accessories, the Libyans who supplied those components were as guilty as hell, as guilty morally and legally as anyone directly involved in commissioning or committing mass murder.