Sentence examples for total acquittal from inspiring English sources

A lawyer for the oil company, Jean Veil, drew wry smiles when hailing the "total acquittal" of Total.

Since about half the jury thought the defendant should be found guilty of the most serious crime, and the other half seemed to want a total acquittal, why couldn't we agree to convict on the lesser charge of manslaughter?

He was reported to have said that he would accept nothing short of total acquittal and that his closing statement was hardly necessary, "for what can an innocent man say in his defense?" Outside the courtroom, he called federal investigators "incompetent and illiterate" and accused them of wasting money on his prosecution while genuine spies went free.

Russia's top prosecutor recently boasted that last year the acquittal rate had doubled to the grand total of 0.8% of those on trial.After stalling for 12 years, in January Russia's parliament passed a law granting Stalin's victims and their children compensation, albeit of a symbolic kind: 92 roubles ($2.9) a month, one free train ride a year, half-price medicine, and free false teeth.

It resulted in not a single conviction, though seven people were charged in the McMartin case, on a total of 135 counts -- just a series of deadlocks, acquittals and mistrials.

Few expect an acquittal.

Prosecutors have appealed the acquittal.

(A trial ended in acquittal).

The acquittal stunned him.

They voted for acquittal.

The acquittal was a small push back.