Mortality: not acquittal but a series of postponements is what we hope for.
Acquittal of the guilty damns the judge.
Too liberal self-accusations are generally but so many traps for acquittal with applause.
If it does not fit, you must acquit.
To be satisfied with the acquittal of the world, though accompanied with the secret condemnation of conscience, this is the mark of a little mind; but it requires a soul of no common stamp to be satisfied with its own acquittal, and to despise the condemnation of the world.
Lawyers have been known to wrest from reluctant juries triumphant verdicts of acquittal for their clients, even when those clients, as often happens, were clearly and unmistakably innocent.
In Russia, less than one percent of trials end with an acquittal. With trials that were initiated for political reasons those chances are zero.
The breath Of accusation kills an innocent name, And leaves for lame acquittal the poor life, Which is a mask without it.
