Word: acquitted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...charge you that if the defendants did no more than pur sue peaceful studies and discussions or teaching and advocacy in the realm of ideas you must acquit them . . . Do not be led astray by talk about thought control, or putting books on trial. No such issues are before you here. "But no one could suppose nor is it the law that any person has an absolute and unbridled right to say or to write and to publish whatever he chooses under any and all circumstances...
After the body of Leon McAtee, a Negro tenant farmer, was found floating in a bayou one day last July, five white men were charged with his murder (TIME, Aug. 12). Last week, at Lexington, their trial was held. The judge freed two; the jury took four minutes to acquit the others...
...took an all-white jury at Lawrenceburg, Tennessee, just one hour and fifty-three minutes to acquit twenty-three out of twenty-five colored citizens charged with participation in "racial disorders" last February. It was a triumph for social justice, and a heartening indication of reconstruction by Southerners themselves. But in the mechanics of courtroom procedure, in the attitudes of both participant and spectator, and in the very conduct of the case, the incident revealed once again the weakness of jurisprudence below the Mason-Dixon: that before the bar two loyalties exist--one to justice, and another, even stronger...
...took the court five minutes to acquit Hogen and Packbier on all counts...
...Harvests are burning, railway lines are being blown skyhigh, trains are being derailed. Everywhere French National Socialists are falling under Tommy-gun bullets, while the army of terrorists is moving about freely almost under the protection of the robes of judges who are only too ready to acquit criminals...