not guilty
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
not guilty (plural not guilties)
- (law) A formal plea by a defendant of not being culpable for the crime with which the defendant is charged.
- If you do not plead, a plea of not guilty will be entered for you.
- (law) A verdict or formal finding by the legal system that a defendant is not culpable for the crime with which the defendant was charged.
- A member of a jury or tribunal supporting acquittal, or a vote cast in support of acquittal.
- A person who has been acquitted of a crime.
- 1997, David Brinkley, “June 5, 1983”, in Everyone Is Entitled to My Opinion[3], →ISBN, page 32:
- The not guilties walked out and went to work if they had jobs; the guilties were hauled away to spend maybe thirty days on the county farm growing cabbage.
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Coordinate terms[edit]
- (plea of non-culpability): guilty, no contest, nolo contendere, not proven
- (verdict of non-culpability): guilty
Translations[edit]
plea of non-culpability
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verdict of non-culpability
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Adjective[edit]
- (law) Of a person, legally innocent of a crime which they have been accused of in a court of law.
- He was found not guilty because there was a reasonable doubt.
- (nonstandard) Innocent.
- The jury said he was not guilty. I knew he wouldn't have done something like that.
Translations[edit]
legally innocent of a crime of which one has been accused in a court of law
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