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Acquit meaning
To declare or find innocent or not guilty. | To discharge (for example, a claim or debt); to clear off, to pay off; to fulfil. | to discharge, release, or set free from a burden, duty, liability, or obligation, or from an accusation or charge.
Example sentences (20)
And there are only very few folks that can raise enough storage capacity to acquit that type of transaction.
It is regarded officially as a national security law, and it is extremely rare for judges to acquit defendants.
Aspinall is expecting the 17-year-old to acquit himself well in the Premier League, having seen first hand what the teenage sensation can do, being in the same management stable.
A woman showed up at the juror's house Sunday and left a bag of cash, saying more would be coming if the juror voted to acquit the defendants, prosecutors said.
His testimony at the trial of Claus von Bulow may have helped acquit Von Bulow of charges he tried to kill his heir wife, Sunny.
It found staff did not have the "time, skills and system to adequately acquit the products and services specified in NTT invoices before those invoices have been paid".
It is not unusual for lawyers to give narrative arcs to their legal theories, reasons to care about the evidence and animating thoughts that may make jurors more inclined to convict or acquit.
Jurors can also consider the lesser charge of vehicular manslaughter with ordinary negligence if they acquit her of vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence.
Lawyers weave evidence and testimony to convince the jurors either that they have seen proof that a crime was committed or that they should acquit because there is reason for doubt.
The board’s decision to acquit Hunt was nearly unanimous.
Along with Collins, Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, another closely watched moderate Republican, announced on the floor this week that she would vote to acquit the President.
As Prestige Worldwide stock continue to plummet in the video’s wake, my brain’s defense mechanisms attempt to construct reasonable scenarios that would acquit Ferrell of this heinous crime.
But nonetheless, Republicans in the Senate pushed to hurry the hearing and acquit the president.
But Senate Republicans are nonetheless about to acquit him without even pretending to look at the evidence, thereby encouraging further abuses of power.
Except Mitt Romney, all republican senators voted to acquit POTUS Trump without exhibiting a scintilla of ethical and moral courage.
He still has to face his trial anew as the apex court's judgment did not acquit and discharge him from the alleged fraud.
If jurors acquit Weinstein of the second predatory sexual assault count because it they don't feel it was a first-degree rape, they can still consider a third-degree rape charge involving the woman.
If Republicans had their choice, they would vote to acquit Mr. Trump by the end of the night.
If the Senate votes on purely party lines to acquit and Mr Trump is then re-elected, this would be an infamous outcome.
Instead, they acquit the president after hearing from Trump’s own lawyers that he did what the House of Representatives said he did.