"acquittal" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is a noun and means the judgment of a court of law that a person is not guilty of the crime with which they have been charged. For example: The jury returned a verdict of acquittal, and the defendant was allowed to go free.
Inside, the year's big stories included Bob Geldof's Live Aid, the hijacking of TWA Flight 847, Princess Diana's visit to the White House and the acquittal of Claus von Bülow; and there were profiles of rising stars such as Lloyd Cole, Tim Roth and Simon Hopkinson.
26 March 2013: Italy's highest court overturns the acquittal and orders a new appeals trial.
It staged the largest sit-in in Florida's history, a 31-day protest outside Florida governor Rick Scott's office in July 2013 after Zimmerman's acquittal and sent a representative to the United Nations calling for an overhaul of stand-your-ground laws.
She even alluded to the 2012 shooting death of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black teenager killed by a neighborhood watch volunteer whose acquittal the following year sparked nationwide protests.
Following Zimmerman's acquittal, Obama unexpectedly compared the 17-year-old to himself at the same age.
Nigel Evans, the Tory MP, has said his view of the police has changed following his trial, and acquittal, on rape and sexual assault charges.
Dalla Vedova shrugged off any suggestion that separating Knox's case from Sollecito's could isolate and hurt the American's chances of an eventual acquittal.
That case dated to 2011 and ended in an acquittal for lack of evidence.
Sweeter still, Mr Modi's acceptability is not a product of his remorse or decisive acquittal, but of his power: winning an election in a country of 1.25 billion people.
It has also allowed Russia's best-known environmental campaigner, Alexander Nikitin, to leave the country after his acquittal on charges of treason.
He has used every conceivable ruse to ensure that his case ends in acquittal or is dropped altogether, an outcome considered increasingly likely.
