acquitted
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Acquitted at a criminal trial, Simpson was found liable by jurors in a 1997 wrongful death lawsuit.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 11, 2024
Acquitted on appeal in February, Briere was nevertheless detained until his release on Friday.
From Reuters • May 12, 2023
Acquitted in 2005, he was later found liable for her death by a civil jury and ordered to pay her family $30 million, a move which bankrupted him.
From BBC • Mar. 9, 2023
Acquitted: A federal jury has acquitted two Pomona police officers charged with using excessive force and lying in the arrest of a teenager at the Los Angeles County Fair.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 29, 2019
Even when the great day came when Rimrock was to make his appeal to the jury she remained in her office in Gunsight—and then came the telegram: "Acquitted!"
From Rimrock Jones by Coolidge, Dane
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