The first is that the part that hurts (yes, I said "hurts") me the most about this sentence is not the acquittal of the crime of prostitution.
Lawyers for Mr. Mohammed could well calculate that their greatest legal obligation is not to win acquittal but to save his life, and that there is no better place to try to do that than in a Manhattan federal courtroom.
Obviously, this is not a strategy for acquittal.
An impassioned statement by the third jury began "Acquittal is not enough for Roscoe Arbuckle.
In the Italian legal system, a conviction – or an acquittal – is not definitive until it has been issued by the Supreme Court.
The defense has made it clear that its strategy during the two-phase trial is not to win an acquittal but to save him from the death penalty.
The latest acquittal is not as much a defeat for Prime Minister Najib Razak as it is for the right wing in his coalition.
Their view of that endlessly complicated issue, set out in an appendix, is not so much a resounding acquittal as "case not proven"—but they would say this should suffice.
Their acquittal suggests that blame is not easily apportioned — and that mistakes, not conspiracies, offer the more likely explanation.
So many cases involving sportsmen end in acquittal, or the case is not brought to trial in the first place.
