Meanings of old crimes in English

He was still a wanted man there, albeit for minor, decades- old crimes.

But why rake up old crimes and make a mess?

Who's probably linked to old crimes in other states.

But actually, he argued, it was all the same old crimes, just done with new tools.

It held grainy copies of old crimes.

Statutes creating new crimes or increasing the punishment of old crimes ought in no case to be retrospective.

At their second trial they confessed to all their old crimes over again, with a whole string of new ones.

But my old crimes, weighed against this new one, were like the theft of an apple weighed against a patricide.

Evidently, the interview with Asakawa and Ryuji that had forced the doctor to own up to quarter-century- old crimes had seriously unbalanced him.

New York state's Child Victims Act, which took effect in August, temporarily enables victims of child sexual abuse to file lawsuits over decades- old crimes.

I disapprove of old crimes, long forgotten, being raked up, now that the recent ones have been atoned for by the punishment of the decemvirs.

"Oh, surely she's forgotten those old crimes now!"