By that standard, the creators of "The Book of Mormon" ultimately lack the courage of their non-conviction.
Criminal cases will continue to be hard to build, but other options include civil cases known as non-conviction forfeitures.
Some countries, including Britain and America, allow so-called "non-conviction-based forfeiture" cases, which don't require a civil or criminal conviction against an individual in order to seize his assets.
Enhanced CRBs will show the same information as per a standard CRB, plus "other relevant information", which can include non-conviction information held by the police (such as the fact that a person was arrested but not charged for a certain offence, for example).
The burkini was "liable to offend the religious convictions or (religious) non-convictions of other users of the beach," and "be felt as a defiance or a provocation exacerbating tensions felt by" the community, it added.
Though not new, afrofuturism's potential to still serve as a vehicle by which black people can envision a different world feels especially prescient in a time in which non-indictments and non-convictions are a norm when black people are killed.
The recent non-conviction of the officer in the Anthony Lamar Smith shooting death in 2011 is proof of this.
A Baltimore judge found a police lieutenant charged in the death of Freddie Gray not guilty on all counts on Monday, the latest non-conviction for the cops involved in the April 2015 incident.
And as the Guardian reported this week, the state appeals court in March issued a stunning declaration when upholding the non-conviction: Forcing oral sex on someone who is unconscious doesn't count as rape.
She has just been arrested protesting the non-conviction of a rape case in Hainan, but the inquisitors are more eager to know what she did at the Ten Yuan Brothel, where she offered free sex to draw attention to the dismal working conditions of sex workers in China.
In our current Congress, cowardice, kowtowing and non-conviction is rewarded politically and economically: a member of Congress who does not rock the boat is more likely to be re-elected and is also more likely to be hired as a lobbyist after his "public service" ends.
