Meaning of not guilty | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A formal plea by a defendant of not being culpable for the crime with which the defendant is charged.
2. A verdict or formal finding by the legal system that a defendant is not culpable for the crime with which the defendant was charged.
3. A member of a jury or tribunal supporting acquittal, or a vote cast in support of acquittal.
4. A person who has been acquitted of a crime.

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Examples

“If you do not plead, a plea of not guilty will be entered for you.”

“My heart beats through five not guilties. Six, seven, nine, eleven. Seventeen not guilties. The prosecutor's lips curl.”

“Two not guilties. Seven for conviction. "I'm a 'not guilty,'" she said.”

“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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