Declared not guilty of a specific offense or crime; legally blameless:
— The jury found him not guilty by reason of insanity.

synonym: acquitted.

Roget 946: innocent, not guilty; unguilty^†; guiltless, faultless, sinless, stainless, bloodless, spotless; clear, immaculate; rectus in curia [Lat.]; unspotted, unblemished, unerring; undefiled etc. 939; unhardened^†, Saturnian; Arcadian etc. (artless) 703^†.    inculpable, unculpable^†; unblamed, unblamable^†; blameless, unfallen^†, inerrable^†, above suspicion; irreproachable, irreprovable^†, irreprehensible^†; unexceptionable, unobjectionable, unimpeachable; salvable^†; venial etc. 937.    harmless; inoffensive, innoxious^†, innocuous; dove-like, lamb-like; pure, harmless as doves; innocent as a lamb, innocent as the babe unborn; more sinned against than sinning" [Lear]. virtuous etc. 944; unreproved^†, unimpeached, unreproached^†.    ... show more

Roget 970: acquitted etc. v.; uncondemned, unpunished, unchastised.    not guilty; not proven.    not liable.