Possible Clues:

• Outlaw historically needing to gain time
• A sober type isn't subject to loss of rights
• Win time for convict, once
• Corrupt
• So to make one an outlaw sounds as if it isn't
• Condemn a defect audibly
• A teetotaller isn't one one might outlaw
• To be a teetotaller is not some sort of contamination, by the sound of it
• Reach the parting of the ways? Convict of treason