21.   Prosecutors say it was the best alternative, given that a jury most likely would have acquitted the defendant because the case was weak.

22.   The article argued that, in certain nonviolent cases, black jurors would be justified in acquitting black defendants to protest racism in the criminal justice system.

23.   The defendant was acquitted within minutes.

24.   The defendant was acquitted mainly because his lawyer convinced the jury that he was merely protecting himself.

25.   The defendants were acquitted after several witnesses recanted their statements to the police and others had refused to testify.

26.   The film, which got negative reviews, was about a young model who was raped then humiliated when the defendant was acquitted by a jury.

27.   The husband-and-wife defendants were acquitted because there was no proof of wrongdoing.

28.   When some defendants were acquitted, talk of sex rings evaporated but prosecutions continued with fervor.

29.   A British defendant was acquitted.