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not guilty
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Princeton's WordNet
acquitted, not guiltyadjective
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"
Wiktionary
not guiltynoun
A formal plea by a defendant of not being culpable for the crime with which the defendant is charged.
not guiltynoun
A verdict or formal finding by the legal system that a defendant is not culpable for the crime with which the defendant was charged.
not guiltynoun
A member of a jury or tribunal supporting acquittal, or a vote cast in support of acquittal.
not guiltynoun
A person who has been acquitted of a crime.
not guiltyadjective
Of a person, legally innocent of a crime which they have been accused of in a court of law.
not guiltyadjective
Innocent.
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not guilty
Not guilty is a legal term used in the courtroom to depict the verdict or judgment that an accused person is innocent of the charges or accusations they are facing. This verdict indicates that the prosecution has not proven beyond a reasonable doubt that the accused has committed the crime they are charged with.
Suggested Resources
not guilty
Read the full text of the Not Guilty poem by Ambrose Bierce on the Poetry.com website.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of not guilty in Chaldean Numerology is: 7
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of not guilty in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8
Examples of not guilty in a Sentence
He'll be there Monday, he'll enter a plea of not guilty, because he is not guilty.
Defenders of sanctuary policies say they protect immigrants from deportation and reduce illegal immigrants ’ fear of cops. But critics, including Homeland Security Department officials say releasing illegal immigrant criminals inside the U.S. is dangerous. Claude Arnold, a retired U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement special agent in charge of Homeland Security Investigations, said sanctuary advocates claim immigration enforcement is the exclusive responsibility of the federal government, however enacting laws like the California Trust Act, which dictates how the federal government can enforce the law, contradicts those claims and can be devastating consequences. The murder of 32-year-old Kathlene Steinle’s in June 2015 by Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez, an illegal immigrant from Mexico, is a prime example, Claude Arnold said. Steinle was shot dead while strolling on San Francisco’s Embarcadero with her father. The alleged shooter, a felon and five-time deportee, has pleaded not guilty to murder charges, claiming the shooting was an accident. Those responsible for releasing him not long before the shooting despite a federal request to detain him for deportation should also have consequences, Claude Arnold said. When sanctuary jurisdictions like San Francisco County release criminals that officials know are in the U.S. illegally, and those criminals commit heinous crimes, those responsible should be federally prosecuted.
The case is almost beyond legal adjudication, no matter if Amanda Knox or Raffaele Sollecito are found guilty or not guilty, it has taken on an after-life of its own.' The protracted online battle took root in the Paleolithic era of social media, when tabloids plumbed Knox's MySpace page for early photos of a smiling and carefree student, wisps of hair blowing from beneath a rolled knit cap, picking up on the.
Absolutely not guilty sir.
I am not guilty.
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