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acquittalIn law, the setting free of someone charged with a crime after a trial.
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Most of the
cases, including that of Nobel Prize-winning novelist Orhan Pamuk, were
either dropped on a technicality or led to acquittals. Emile Yvernes
reported that acquittals for serious assault (coups et blessures graves)
rose from 27% to 78% between 1860 and 1890, acquittals for murder grew
from 15% to 34%, and the rate of acquittal for homicide increased from
16% to 24%. Johnson's biography also touts the number of acquittals and
hung juries he has racked up as a defense lawyer, which makes it all the
more odd that the Georgia chapter of the Fraternal Order of Police is
behind him 100 percent of the way. |
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