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by stevekemp 1146 days ago
Scotland has three verdicts for trails:

* Guilty

* Not Guilty

* Not Proven - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_proven

The latter lets you off, but has the connotation the defendant probably did it, but it couldn't be quite proven.

I like that system, but it seems there is a legal review going on at the moment which might abolish it.