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Law and Order Minister Hernus Kriel on Wednesday reiterated his call on owners of unlicensed firearms to hand in those weapons to the police and go "scotfree".

ANC Daily News Briefing 1992

However, the MLA has gone "scotfree" as no case has been registered.

The Times of India 2010

Why let one group get off scotfree, and only show the other in the negative light?

District 9 2009

All the real scumbags get off scotfree, The Big White Turd does his worst for the fall campaign, the Dems keep presenting seventeen-point plans, and we sink so far into dictatorship that we never ever ever get out.

Firedoglake » Dodging CIPA Graymail Bullets…And Other Legal Notes 2006

Bezukhov got off scotfree, while Fedya had to bear the whole burden on his shoulders.

War and Peace 2003

Unfortunately the 0,08 limit was generally not enforced and many drivers over the limit got off scotfree.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

While he behaved thus toward his friends and acquaintances, he did not show himself cruel or inexorable even to his enemies, but many of those who had come into collision with him personally he let off scotfree, and many who had actually made war against him he released, giving some of them honors and offices.

Dio's Rome, Volume 2 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus; and Now Presented in English Form. Second Volume Extant Books 36-44 (B.C. 69-44). Cassius Dio

Some superstitious fools suppose that they which die of the garget are ridden with the nightmare, and therefore they hang up stones which naturally have holes in them, and must be found unlooked for; as if such a stone were an apt cockshot for the devil to run through and solace himself withal, while the cattle go scotfree and are not molested by him!

Of the Air and Soil and Commodities of This Island. Chapter X. [1577, Book I., Chapter 13; 1587, Book I., Chapter 18 1909

And, when it comes to loss, your neighbor or your neighbor’s son must bear it, while they come off scotfree.

On Mercenary Soldiers 1906

While he behaved thus toward his friends and acquaintances, he did not show himself cruel or inexorable even to his enemies, but many of those who had come into collision with him personally he let off scotfree, and many who had actually made war against him he released, giving some of them honors and offices.

His Oration Over the Dead Body of Caesar 1906