Acquittal

Acquittal in the law of the United States

Acquittal: Related U.S. Resources

• Acquittal in the American Law Encyclopedia
• Criminal Judicial Process Keywords in the U.S. Legal Corpus
• Criminal Process Topics in the United States Legal Dictionary

See Also

Conviction (in the U.S. Legal Encyclopedia) Jury (in the U.S. Legal Encyclopedia) Verdict (in the U.S. Legal Encyclopedia).

Acquittal in Law Enforcement

Main Entry: Law Enforcement in the Legal Dictionary. This section provides, in the context of Law Enforcement, a partial definition of acquittal.

Grammar

This term is a noun.

Etimology of Acquittal

(You may find acquittal at the world legal encyclopedia and the etimology of more terms).

early 15c., “payment of debt or retribution;” see acquit + -al (2). Sense of “a release from debt or obligation” is from mid-15c.; that of “freeing from charge or offense” (by legal process) is from 1530s.

Meaning of Acquittal in Spanish

Description/ translation of acquittal into Spanish: absolución[1]

Note: for more information on related terms and on the area of law where acquittal belongs (criminal procedure law), in Spanish, see here.

Notes and References

1. Translation of Acquittal published by Antonio Peñaranda

Resources

See Also

• Law Enforcement Officer
• Police Officer
• Law Enforcement Agency

Further Reading

• acquittal in A Dictionary of Law Enforcement (Oxford University Press)
• acquittal in the Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement
• A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis

English Legal System: Acquittal

In the context of the English law, A Dictionary of Law provides the following legal concept of Acquittal :

A decision by a court that a defendant accused of a crime is innocent. A court must acquit a defendant following a verdict of *not guilty or a successful plea of *autrefois acquit or *autrefois convict. Once acquitted, a defendant cannot be retried for the same crime on fresh evidence, but an acquittal in a criminal court does not bind civil courts (for example, in relation to a libel charge against someone alleging the defendant’s guilt).

Acquittal Meaning in the U.S. Court System

Judgment that a criminal defendant has not been proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. In other words, a verdict of “not guilty.” Under the Double Jeopardy clause of the Constitution, an acquitted defendant may never be tried again criminally for the same offense.

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