Sentence examples for acquitted for from inspiring English sources

The phrase "acquitted for" is not correct in standard English usage.
The correct phrase is "acquitted of," which is used in legal contexts to indicate that someone has been found not guilty of a charge.
Example: "The defendant was acquitted of all charges after the jury deliberated for only a few hours."
Alternatives: "found not guilty of" or "cleared of".

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Acquitted for murder.

She was acquitted for lack of evidence.

Some will be acquitted for lack of evidence.

The other parliamentarians were acquitted for lack of proof.

Ultimately he was acquitted for lack of evidence.

In 1805 he was court-martialed, but acquitted, for abusive language.

(Arnaud was tried and acquitted for those murders, possibly by a rigged jury).

He was charged with "Medism," and, though acquitted for the moment, he was replaced by Dorcis.

Another defendant and minor Baath party official, Mohammed Azawi Ali, was acquitted for insufficient evidence.

She also discovered he had been acquitted for an indecent assault in 1996.

Muybridge became a celebrity himself when he was tried, and acquitted, for the 1874 murder of his wife's lover.

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