"There is a generally accepted practice that a person is innocent as long as a court has not proven his guilt," he said.
Passage is innocent as long as a ship refrains from engaging in certain prohibited activities, including weapons testing, spying, smuggling, serious pollution, fishing, or scientific research.
"You say to yourself, 'Not only is this guy innocent as a matter of law, he's innocent as a matter of fact.' I decided I wasn't just going to sign my name to a piece of paper".
The earth and rocks of her landscapes undulated like human flesh, her plants and flowers were uterine, labial, vulval, clitoral creatures; she was innocent as a petunia.
An Oklahoma district attorney has denounced claims that a death row inmate scheduled to die this week is innocent as "a bullshit PR campaign", saying that legal representatives for the condemned prisoner have failed to produce any new documentation supporting their argument.
As Clare describes him in the novel, "his face was innocent as an empty bowl," and he's a virgin at 24.
She is innocent as only a male fantasy would believe.
Many others think he's innocent as well lawyers, journalists, an organization of former judges; even the victim's mother.
Hannibal Will (Hugh Dancy) vows to prove he's innocent as the drama returns for a new season.
The perpetrators and some of those sympathetic to their cause claimed those acts were nevertheless morally legitimate, whether as retribution (exacted on the assumption that no member of the ruling class was innocent) or as a means necessary for the overthrow of the unjust order.
