guilty or innocent
Trial's binary outcome
Guilty or innocent frames the binary question at the heart of criminal trials: did the accused commit the crime or not?
The phrase appears in discussions of legal proceedings, jury deliberations, and moral judgment: The jury must decide—guilty or innocent?
It often emphasizes that only two outcomes exist, with nothing in between.
- verdictOfficial court decision
- acquittedDeclared legally innocent
- convictedJudged guilty of crime
- beyond reasonable doubtStandard for criminal conviction
- criminal trialCourt case for crimes
trial · jury · plea bargain · crime · blame · conscience · shame · remorse · charged · accused · defendant · confession · evidence · witness · courtroom · punishment · wrongful conviction · pardon
- Either/Oryes or no, true or false, on or off, in or out, up or down
certainty of determination
guilty or innocentundetermined
Not yet established
unresolved · hung jury · mistrial · under investigation · unknown
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