not guilties

Noun

not guilty (plural not guilties)

1. A formal plea by a defendant of not being culpable for the crime with which the defendant is charged.
   • If you do not plead, a plea of not guilty will be entered for you.

   Synonyms:

   innocent

   Antonyms:

   guilty

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.
   • My heart beats through five not guilties. Six, seven, nine, eleven. Seventeen not guilties. The prosecutor's lips curl.2003, D.B.C. Pierre, Vernon God Little, →ISBN, page 238

   Synonyms:

   acquittal, exoneration, quittance, absolution, acquittance, acquitment, assoilment, compurgation, disculpation, exculpation

3. A member of a jury or tribunal supporting acquittal, or a vote cast in support of acquittal.
   • Two not guilties. Seven for conviction. "I'm a 'not guilty,'" she said.2006, John Lutz, Chill of Night, →ISBN, page 213
4. A person who has been acquitted of a crime.
   • 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.1997, David Brinkley, “June 5, 1983”, in Everyone Is Entitled to My Opinion, →ISBN, page 32

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