acquitted

Those later formed the basis of a criminal trial at the end of which he was acquitted of all charges.

He was acquitted of perpetrating a bomb hoax at his army barracks.

“Had there been one case charged and only one, there’s certainly a reasonable possibility that a judge or jury would have acquitted. The problem was one after another.”

Sussmann was acquitted by a jury after only six hours of deliberation.

But three former senior Barclays executives were acquitted after they became the first bankers to face a jury around criminal allegations centring on the 2008 crisis.