acquitted

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Price was acquitted, leading directly to a new law allowing cremation in the UK.

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026

Mulakhil faced trial alongside Mohammad Kabir, also an asylum seeker from Afghanistan, who was acquitted of all charges.

From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026

Rocky denied all wrongdoing and jumped into a courtroom gallery to hug Rihanna when he was acquitted in February 2025.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2026

Jurors had a good laugh, Dunn recalled, and acquitted him, but the case was costly.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 8, 2026

But by means of the enormous wealth he had piled up and by the secret hold he had over various persons, he was acquitted on some technical inaccuracy.

From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie