Not Guilty

Definition: Not Guilty

Not Guilty

Adjective

1. 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".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonym: Not Guilty

Acquittal

Not guilty; not proven.

Innocence

Adjective: innocent, not guilty; unguilty; guiltless, faultless, sinless, stainless, bloodless, spotless; clear, immaculate; rectus in curia; unspotted, unblemished, unerring; undefiled; unhardened, Saturnian; Arcadian; (artless).

Crosswords: Not Guilty

Not guilty! My experiments are only theoretical, completely within legal boundaries. (Lilo & Stitch; writing credit: Chris Sanders)

I'm not guilty if I have something of Miss Congeniality, while the others go to one side, I go to another. (Popstars: Brasil; writing credit: David Meinstein)

Try to charge me but I'm not guilty (Guilty Until Proven Innocent; performing artist: Jay-Z)

So You Think You're Not Guilty (1949)

Not Guilty Enough (1938)

Verdict Not Guilty (1933)

Guilty or Not Guilty (1932)

Not Guilty for Runnin' (1924)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Not Guilty (reference)

• Marijuana: Not Guilty As Charged (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• John P. Kee & The New Life Community Choir: Not Guilty - The Experience (reference)

• Guilty Until Proven Not Guilty - Napoleon's Revenge (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Civil Liberties

Ghana

All pleaded not guilty; 18 were remanded into police custody, and 6 were granted bail. (references)

Djibouti

On March 31, the court found DAF not guilty of defamation, but guilty of disseminating false information. (references)

Ireland

In March John Gilligan was found not guilty in the 1996 murder of journalist Veronica Guerin but was found guilty of drug dealing and is serving a 28-year sentence. (references)

Economic History

Nigeria

In late 1994 the government set up the Ogoni Civil Disturbances Special Tribunal to try prominent author and Ogoni activist Ken Saro-lh'iwa and others for their alleged roles in the killings of four prominent Ogoni politicians in May 1994. Saro-lh'iwa and 14 others pleaded not guilty to charges that they procured and counseled others to murder the politicians. (references)

Human Rights

Cote d'Ivoire

In July he was tried, found not guilty, and released from prison. (references)

Belarus

Of these only 272, or fewer than 0.5 percent, were found to be not guilty. (references)

Minorities

Czech Republic

As a result of the original verdict issued in January 2000, the District Court then found four of the attackers not guilty and placed two of them on probation. (references)

Brazil

Adorno analyzed 500 criminal cases judged in Sao Paulo courts in 1990 and found that 60 percent of whites able to afford their own lawyers were acquitted, while only 27 percent of blacks who hired lawyers were found not guilty. (references)

Slovak Republic

On August 31, a Zilina court handed down prison sentences between 3 and 5 years for another three men involved in the attack whom were found guilty of trespassing, but not guilty of a racially motivated murder, despite the fact that one defendant admitted sympathizing with the skinhead movement. (references)

Political Rights

Fiji

One of the four persons found not guilty, Metuisela Mua, ran for office in the August elections and represented Speight's Conservative Alliance party in a televised debate. (references)

Fiji

Four other persons were tried individually and found not guilty of treason for lack of evidence, despite video footage and numerous accounts by eyewitnesses concerning their involvement. (references)

Women

Nicaragua

Those cases that actually reached the courts usually resulted in not guilty verdicts due to judicial inexperience with, and lack of legal training related to, proper judicial handling of such violence. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "not guilty": find not guilty ♦ plead not guilty ♦ verdict of not guilty. Additional references.

Czech

nevinný (all right, blameless, dewy-eyed, guiltless, innocent, innocuous, white), nevinen. (various references)

Finnish

syytön (free from guilt, guiltless, innocent). (various references)

French

innocent. (various references)

Greek 

αθώοσ (guiltless, innocent), αθωωτικόσ. (various references)

Italian

innocente (blameless, clean, crimeless, guiltless, innocent, pure, sinless). (various references)

Pig Latin

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Portuguese

declarar-se inocente (plead not guilty). (various references)

Romanian

nevinovat (blameless, chaste, childlike, harmless, immaculate, innocent, pure, sackless, silly, simple, white). (various references)

Russian 

оправдательный приговор (verdict of not guilty), не признвать себя виновным (plead not guilty), заявление о невиновности (plea of not guilty), делать официальное заявление о невиновности (cop a plea of not guilty). (various references)

Spanish

declararse inocente (plead not guilty). (various references)

Swedish

frikänna (absolve, acquit, exonerate, find not guilty), friande dom (verdict of not guilty). (various references)

Turkish

suçsuz (blameless, clean-handed, guiltless, harmless). (various references)

Ukrainian

не визнавати вину (plead not guilty). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: gluttony, outlying.

-2 letters: glutton, goutily, lotting, louting, nuttily, touting.

-3 letters: guilty, loungy, lungyi, luting, outing, tiglon, tingly, toling, toting, toying.

-4 letters: glint, glout, gluon, gouty, guilt, gutty, guyot, ingot, lingo, lingy, linty, lungi, lying, nitty, noily, nutty, tigon, tying, ungot, unity, unlit, until, yogin, young.

-5 letters: gilt, glut, gout, iglu, inly, into, ling, lino, lint.

+4 letters: outstandingly.

+5 letters: antiregulatory.