Sentence examples for may be acquitted from inspiring English sources

A man who has sex with an underage girl, for example, may be acquitted if it emerges that he was fooled.

Few cases are as clear-cut as Rwanda's; Slobodan Milosevic, the former Serb leader, may be acquitted of genocide, though probably not of other grave charges.This time, never againThe surest way to prevent genocide would be to see it coming.

The purposes of bail pending trial in criminal cases are to avoid inflicting punishment upon an innocent person (who may be acquitted at trial) and to encourage the unhampered preparation of his defense.

Mr Strauss-Kahn may yet be acquitted.

Many lawyers and experts say he may, therefore, be acquitted of the most serious charges.

He would later be acquitted.

So Orestes should be acquitted.

Dominique Strauss-Kahn may have been acquitted on charges of aggravated pimping, but he will forever be guilty in the court of public opinion in France.

So, conceivably, a person who has not been charged or convicted of any serious offence, in fact may have been acquitted, can be subject to restraints on their liberty made on the basis of secret, untested, hearsay police evidence.

The test may come if Mr. Padilla is acquitted by a jury in the Miami federal case or receives and serves a short sentence.

"I think if you are the general public, you may think, 'Oh yes, they were acquitted and I'm so happy for those nice sprinters and so happy that justice was served,' but that's not the case if you look deeper into the story," said Steven Ungerleider, an antidoping expert who wrote a book on the East German doping system.