innocent
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Edney conceded there was "no evidence" that the jurors had communicated with anyone else, but said innocent contact - even just seeing the detective or solicitors - could have resulted in "subconscious influence".
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
Reiner has pleaded not guilty to the stabbings and remains legally innocent unless he changes his plea or is convicted by a jury.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
“There was a teacher in Bell County, just an innocent teacher who put up a Linus cartoon over Christmas that said ‘Unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given.’
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026
The possibility of executing the innocent has gone a long way to change the national conversation about the death penalty.
From Slate ● Aug. 13, 2026
Sydney never came close to him, so he wouldn’t suspect her, and Rio stood next to him for a few more stations, which made him seem completely innocent.
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
"This land has paid a heavy price. It has seen many of its children buried. It has borne witness to the suffering of children and innocents," added the leader of the world's Roman Catholics.
From Barron's ● May 23, 2026
There is a bleak sameness to their contents—desperate pleas to be spared as innocents, loyal to the party and wrongly accused.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026
It’s unfortunate that innocents are being swept up in mass immigration raids.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2025
It also asked police to stop harassing innocents.
From BBC ● May 28, 2025
They have been called an army of innocents.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
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