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declared not guilty of a specific offense or crime; legally blameless; "he stands acquitted on all charges"; "the jury found him not guilty by reason of insanity"
Result in a trial when the accused is not found guilty or innocent, but released because there is not enough evidence to convict.
That one who comes free from a charge of wrongdoing after a verdict.
Found not guilty after trial.
Released; absolved; purged of an accusation; judicially discharged from accusation; released from debt, etc. Includes both civil and criminal prosecutions.
the term used when a jury or Judge returns verdict of not guilty, which means that the jury or Judge didn't find that the State proved that the defendant committed the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.
When an accused is found not guilty of a charge in a jury trial.
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