Voorbeelden van 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.