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acquit
acquit someone of something
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cleared
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innocency
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acquittal | American Dictionary

acquittal
noun[ C/U ]
us/əˈkwɪt̬·əl/
an official decision in a court of law that someone is not guilty of a particular crime:
[ C ]He hoped for an acquittal.

Examples of acquittal

acquittal
Fortunately for their intended victims, a series of high-profile acquittals# began to dampen their enthusiasm for libel prosecutions.
But even justified refusals could later, under pressure, be overturned and acquittal conceded all the same.
In jury decisions this seems acceptable, as the standard of proof for conviction should be higher than that for acquittal.
What we face here is not a standard of proof but a pretext-and a flimsy one at that-for a conviction or for an acquittal.
Both grants and refusals of acquittal were recorded, along with their justifications, and communicated to the accounting clerks.
However, this was already a time of hardship, as is seen in the downturn of rents and the frequency and magnitude of rent acquittals.
First, the assembly's acquittal on appeal was encouraged by the king, who suggested it in the first place.
Any one of these excuses, if true, should lead to an acquittal.
For that reason, his adjudication resulted in a legal acquittal that was, in turn, wrapped in a social conviction.
If it came to a trial, acquittal was anything but certain.
The ultra vires thesis holds that imperiled wrongdoers faced with death are entitled to an acquittal because the state lacks standing to punish them.
Yet current practice allows acquittal on precisely such inexpressible worries.
If upon such proof there is reasonable doubt remaining, the accused is entitled to the benefit of it by an acquittal.
Before harvesting, the tenant requested acquittal on contingency grounds, often threatening to apply for, or already armed with a judicial mandate for encampacao.
In later crises, risk-sharing was mostly contained by resorting to the device of acquittals, with only a residual growth in sharecropping.
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