not guilty

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."

A verdict or formal finding by the legal system that a defendant is not culpable for the crime with which the defendant was charged.

A member of a jury or tribunal supporting acquittal, or a vote cast in support of acquittal.

Of a person, legally innocent of a crime which they have been accused of in a court of law.

"He was found not guilty because there was a reasonable doubt."

Innocent.

"The jury said he was not guilty. I knew he wouldn't have done something like that."