if a person is found not guilty can they still be accelerated? if so, how?
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if a person is found not guilty can they still be accelerated? if so, how?
Asked on May 20, 2009 under Criminal Law, Oklahoma
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FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 14 years ago | Contributor
This makes absolutely NO sense if you meant "accelerated"? Do you mean "incarcerated"?
People who are acquitted at trial do NOT go to jail or prison after trial on the charge from which they were acquitted at trial.
However, if there are other charges or warrants outstanding the newly acquitted person may be held on those other charges.
Similarly, if in the course of the trial the person acquitted admitted to other crimes ("I did not shoot X in Tulsa. At the time he was shot I was holding up a convenience store in Ada, Oklahoma. They have me on videotape there") the acquitted person may be held on the robbery charges.
Further, if he was out on probation and at trial something comes out that suggests probation should be revoked, that's a different story.
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