acquittal (noun)
31judgment of conviction — noun (criminal law) a final judgment of guilty in a criminal case and the punishment that is imposed the conviction came as no surprise • Syn: ↑conviction, ↑condemnation, ↑sentence • Ant: ↑acquittal ( …
32acquitment — noun ( s) Etymology: French acquittement, from acquitter to acquit (from Old French aquiter) + ment obsolete : acquittal …
33divisible offense — noun : an offense the commission of which involves the commission of one of a lesser grade so that on the former there can be an acquittal and on the latter a conviction …
34jedburgh justice — noun also jeddart justice Usage: usually capitalized 1st J 1. Scotland : justice that punishes first and tries afterwards : lynch law 2. Scotland : wholesale punishment or acquittal …
35quittal — noun ( s) Etymology: quit (II) + al obsolete : requital; also : acquittal …
36discharge — dis·charge 1 /dis chärj, dis ˌchärj/ vt 1: to release from an obligation: as a: to relieve of a duty under an instrument (as a contract or a negotiable instrument); also: to render (an instrument) no longer enforceable a formal instrument...may… …
37Subic rape case — The Subic rape case, officially known as People of the Philippines vs. Chad Carpentier, Dominic Duplantis, Keith Silkwood, and Daniel Smith, was a criminal case in the Philippines involving a Filipina and four US Marines. It caught wide media… …
38Lewinsky scandal — The Lewinsky scandal was a political sex scandal emerging in 1998 from a sexual relationship between United States President Bill Clinton and a 25 year old White House intern, Monica Lewinsky. The news of this extra marital affair and the… …
39verdict — ver·dict / vər dikt/ n [alteration (partly conformed to Medieval Latin veredictum ) of Anglo French veirdit statement, finding, verdict, from Old French veir true (from Latin verus ) + dit saying, from Latin dictum] 1: the usu. unanimous finding… …
40double jeopardy — n: the prosecution of a person for an offense for which he or she has already been prosecuted see also jeopardy, amendment v to the constitution in the back matter compare merger 3 ◇ The Fifth Amendment to the Constitution st …
