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Acquittal in sentence

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As a result, he said, "So let's pay no more attention to absolute acquittal, but you mentioned two other possibilities."
"Apparent acquittal and deferment.
"Apparent acquittal and deferment," said the painter.
You can get either of them if I help you, but it'll take some effort of course, the difference between them is that apparent acquittal needs concentrated effort for a while and that deferment takes much less effort but it has to be sustained.
Now then, apparent acquittal.
"That would be very kind of you", said K."And would the judge then believe you and nonetheless not pass an absolute acquittal?"
"That's right," said the painter, "but only apparently free or, to put it a better way, temporarily free, as the most junior judges, the ones I know, they don't have the right to give the final acquittal.
And as I'm in such good contact with the court I can also tell you how the difference between absolute and apparent acquittal is described, just in a superficial way, in the directives to the court offices.
If there's an absolute acquittal all proceedings should stop, everything disappears from the process, not just the indictment but the trial and even the acquittal disappears, everything just disappears.
With an apparent acquittal it's different.
When that happens, nothing has changed except that the case for your innocence, for your acquittal and the grounds for the acquittal have been made stronger.
Seen from outside it can sometimes seem that everything has been long since forgotten, the documents have been lost and the acquittal is complete.
I've been talking here as if there's a long delay between apparent acquittal and re-arrest, that is quite possible and I do know of cases like that, but it's just as likely that the defendant goes home after he's been acquitted and finds somebody there waiting to re-arrest him.
"The trial will always start over again," said the painter, "but there is, once again as before, the possibility of getting an apparent acquittal.
"But to get a second acquittal," asked K., as if in anticipation of further revelations by the painter, "is that not harder to get than the first time?"
When the acquittal is passed the judges are already aware that re-arrest is likely.
But there are countless other reasons why the judges' mood and their legal acumen in the case can be altered, and efforts to obtain the second acquittal must therefore be suited to the new conditions, and generally just as vigorous as the first."
"But this second acquittal will once again not be final," said K., shaking his head.
"Of course not," said the painter, "the second acquittal is followed by the third arrest, the third acquittal by the fourth arrest and so on.
That's what is meant by the term apparent acquittal."
"You clearly don't think an apparent acquittal offers much advantage," said the painter, "perhaps deferment would suit you better.
I repeat, this doesn't require so much effort as getting an apparent acquittal, but it probably requires a lot more attention.
Compared with an apparent acquittal, deferment has the advantage that the defendant's future is less uncertain, he's safe from the shock of being suddenly re-arrested and doesn't need to fear the exertions and stress involved in getting an apparent acquittal just when everything else in his life would make it most difficult.
I don't mean by this that the defendant is never free, he's never free in the proper sense of the word with an apparent acquittal either.
With a much worse grace than that wherewith he had penned the letter to Bois-Guilbert, the Prior wrote an acquittance, discharging Isaac of York of six hundred crowns, advanced to him in his need for acquittal of his ransom, and faithfully promising to hold true compt with him for that sum.
And he declaimed:"If humanity alone, if the instinct of natural benevolence which we feeltowards all who suffer, were the motive of the acquittal we expect ofyou, I should appeal to your compassion, gentlemen of the jury, to yourhearts as fathers and as men; but we have law on our side, and it is thepoint of law only which we shall submit to your judgment."
Going nearer to the coast, a few shell were sent after her as an acquittal of conscience, but the Federals were outdone, for their projectiles did not reach half-way.
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