acquitted

Refusing to extradite someone who has previously been acquitted is not the same as refusing to try them.

The Volokh Conspiracy » “Exonerated” Former Death Row Inmate Reconvicted 2010

To be saying all this stuff about Michael after being acquitted is so disgraceful.

Rep. King on Jackson: 'There's nothing good about this guy' 2009

Dominque de Villepin acquitted of charges ready to start gunning for Sarkozy.

Matthew Yglesias » Endgame 2010

Refusing to extradite someone who has previously been acquitted is not the same as refusing to try them.

The Volokh Conspiracy » “Exonerated” Former Death Row Inmate Reconvicted 2010

If people come out now and say they were abused by him, I will surely be more ready to accept that, I don't assume that everyone acquitted is without sin.

Lost Boy kittenpie 2009

What part of the word acquitted do you fail to understand?

Gates comments now closed 2009

The poor charcoal-burner is acquitted from the charges, and able to withdraw to his West Indian world with a deepened sense of identity.

A Single, Homeless, Circling Satellite: Derek Walcott, 1992 Nobel Literature Laureate 2001

Those who, upon their repenting and believing, are, for the sake of Christ's righteousness, acquitted from the guilt of sin and saved from death and hell, which are the wages of sin, are those ransomed of the Lord that shall, in the great day, be brought out of the grave in triumph, and it shall be as impossible for the banks of death to hold them as it was to hold their Master.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721

The charges were taken away because of prosecutorial misconduct, but Ted Stevens wasn't acquitted, which is an important distinction.

Remembering Sen. Stevens And Rep. Rostenkowski 2010

He was acquitted, which is next-best thing to actually being innocent.

James Cameron Finds Christ’s Coffin 2010