"acquittal from" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used when someone is declared not guilty of a crime or wrongdoing and is therefore released from any legal responsibility or punishment. Example: "After a lengthy trial, the defendant was granted an acquittal from all charges due to lack of evidence."
But Joseph K. consumes himself in a search for inaccessible courts and for an acquittal from his unknown offense.
After his acquittal from the phone hacking scandal, Charles Brooks sought to be reimbursed by the government for the legal costs of his defense.
John Terry walked away with an acquittal from Westminster magistrates court on Friday, yet the Football Association could nevertheless charge Terry with a similar offence of racial abuse, for the exact same incident.
"Most observers had been expecting the trial to follow the usual pattern of Turkish 'obscenity' trials: a report compiled by a panel of academics declaring a novel as 'literature', prompting an acquittal from the judge.
The Court of Appeals affirmed the conviction, ruling that, although the Government was collaterally estopped by the acquittal from offering Henry's testimony at trial and the testimony was inadmissible under the Federal Rules of Evidence, its admission was harmless because it was highly probable that the error did not prejudice Dowling.
PR off the rails: FOX Searchlight invested in a public relations team to help filmmaker Nate Parker navigate the press junket for "Birth of a Nation" after reporters began asking about his rape acquittal from 1999.
The acquittals from the earlier crane collapse, as well as from the 2007 blaze at the former Deutsche Bank building, show the difficulty of prosecuting such cases.
And for cases such as this, in which a trial court's interpretation of the relevant criminal statute is likely to prove dispositive, we see no reason why jurisdictions could not provide for mandatory continuances or expedited interlocutory appeals if they wished to prevent misguided acquittals from being entered.
The claim would be largely satisfied by an acquittal resulting from the prosecution's failure to carry its burden of proof.
The acquittal resulted from the insufficiency of the Government's proof at trial to establish petitioner's connection with the gambling business, as the trial judge erroneously understood it to have been charged.
Ashford v Thornton (1818) 106 ER 149 is an English law case in the Court of King's Bench that upheld the right of the defendant, on a private appeal from an acquittal for murder, to trial by battle.
