Exempel på acquit

• Of the eleven, two had not been brought to trial, six were acquitted, and the remainder's case was deemed a mistrial.

• Two members of the group were acquitted for lack of evidence.

• Jurors showed their skepticism again in an early 1905 case by acquitting a defendant who had fingerprint evidence against him.

• The burden then falls on the petitioner to show that "no reasonable cause" exists to believe that she committed the crime of which she has just been acquitted. 29.

• Thus, he should be acquitted.

• Indeed, each juror may in turn be held by his fellows to give his reasons for acquitting, though the better rule would seem to require these for convicting.

• As it stands, the criminal law acquits defendants who, having attempted but not completed a crime, voluntarily change course, renounce their criminal purpose, and "abandon" the crime.

• Then the wealthy or more powerful would not be acquitted or be given a less harsh sentence even when they committed the same crime as the poorer or weaker man.

• Two able seamen were acquitted of these charges, but found guilty of absence from their place of duty.

• If that woman is prosecuted, that statement makes her chances of being acquitted slight.

• However, if a person is acquitted he will be acquitted of the offence with which he is charged.

• I cannot see how he can hope to be acquitted unless at some stage she is asked on his behalf whether she is lying.

• I think that all juries would have acquitted some of the accused.

• I do not think the press has acquitted itself particularly well today.

• I have very little faith in the civil servants who have leaked information in the past, whether they have been acquitted or convicted.