The defendant was acquitted of the crime and was free to go home.    From LearnThat.org. 

He stands acquitted on all charges.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

What part of the word acquitted do you fail to understand?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gates comments now closed] Reference

Dominque de Villepin acquitted of charges ready to start gunning for Sarkozy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Endgame] Reference

To be saying all this stuff about Michael after being acquitted is so disgraceful.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rep. King on Jackson: 'There's nothing good about this guy'] Reference

Refusing to extradite someone who has previously been acquitted is not the same as refusing to try them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » “Exonerated” Former Death Row Inmate Reconvicted] Reference

He was acquitted, which is next-best thing to actually being innocent.    From Wordnik.com.  [James Cameron Finds Christ’s Coffin] Reference

Supreme Court - in railing against a little-known practice called acquitted conduct sentencing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Front Page - The Washington Times] Reference

If they were acquitted, which is ridiculous, be aware that they wouldn't last very long on the street.    From Wordnik.com.  [Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz] Reference

The man who had been ill unto death and the man who for many years had worn no sword acquitted themselves well.    From Wordnik.com.  [Audrey] Reference

"Marco Weiss should have been acquitted, that is what we requested and that is what we will push for," Mehmet Asim Iplikcioglu said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home - BostonHerald.com] Reference

The charges were taken away because of prosecutorial misconduct, but Ted Stevens wasn't acquitted, which is an important distinction.    From Wordnik.com.  [Remembering Sen. Stevens And Rep. Rostenkowski] Reference

If by 'acquitted' you mean Megrahi's release in 2009, no court played any role in that.    From Wordnik.com.  [At last, Islam's appeasers may be on the run | Nick Cohen] Reference

The US request concerns the 60 "acquitted" detainees.    From Wordnik.com.  [¡No Pasarán!] Reference

The twelve "acquitted" won defense verdicts against SEIU.    From Wordnik.com.  [CounterPunch] Reference

"acquitted" detainees because the Netherlands has always maintained a high-horse attitude towards the closing of the prison.    From Wordnik.com.  [¡No Pasarán!] Reference

Of the 22 tried at Nuremberg, three were acquitted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lessons Of Nuremberg] Reference

(The other, a Libyan airline official, was acquitted.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Q&A: 'It Is Emotionally Unsatisfying'] Reference

And although Smith was acquitted, she said "I believe me.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Black Or White] Reference

A sensational trial followed, after which Smith was acquitted.    From Wordnik.com.  [All The Senator’s Women] Reference

It was not made clear when the 29 acquitted men would be released.    From Wordnik.com.  [Case To Be Continued...] Reference

(Lance was acquitted on some charges and the others were dropped.).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Influence Game] Reference

He was tried for treason but acquitted in 1961 after a five-year trial.    From Wordnik.com.  [Transformers] Reference

Killen, who was acquitted in the federal trial in 1967, denies involvement.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ghosts Of Mississippi] Reference

Hastings was convicted by the Senate, even though a jury had acquitted him of bribery.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Clear Path To A Barricade] Reference

But you can foresee a possibility where some number of Guantánamo detainees are acquitted?.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Fair, Open, Just, Honest'] Reference

He was acquitted, but is serving a long prison term on weapons charges related to the case.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Break In The Blast] Reference

The eccentric James McDougal had been prosecuted (but acquitted) on similar charges in 1989.    From Wordnik.com.  [Don't Go Overboard] Reference

It's true that three judges had acquitted the Islamists, but Musharraf has retained all three.    From Wordnik.com.  [Musharraf’s Last Stand] Reference

Inductees-including Marla Maples and Marion Barry-are honored as "the good, the bad and the acquitted.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beauty And The Beach] Reference

The grandparents mounted a legal battle to keep the kids after Simpson was acquitted and he demanded the children back.    From Wordnik.com.  [Simpson Speaks] Reference

After a highly publicized trial, 23 were sentenced in November to prison terms of up to five years; the rest were acquitted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gay Egypt In The Dock] Reference

Earlier this month, prosecutors suffered a setback when a jury acquitted Aristide's former counternarcotics czar on similar allegations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aristide Agonistes] Reference