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Acquitting Mr Smyth, the judge said he had doubts across a number of issues, including Haggarty's evidence, some eyewitness evidence about the gunman's height and DNA evidence.

From BBC • Feb. 29, 2024

Acquitting the accused, a week later, he suggested Mr Garavsky might have heard of the killings from colleagues or in the media and simply repeated their stories.

From BBC • Sep. 30, 2023

Acquitting Shacter of the charge, Judge Alexander Harvey II declared that his beliefs were clearly "a product of a faith."

From Time Magazine Archive

Acquitting herself with ease in both German and Italian, and being exceedingly versatile, she won equal renown in the operas of Weber, Mozart, Rossini, and Donizetti.

From For Every Music Lover A Series of Practical Essays on Music by Moore, Aubertine Woodward

Acquitting Dick of any conscious plagiarism, of a breach of common honesty, he was disagreeably filled with a sense of the work's immeasurable inferiority to Oswyn's ruined masterpiece.

From A Comedy of Masks A Novel by Dowson, Ernest Christopher