Accused of molesting a 13-year-old cancer survivor in 2003, he was acquitted of charges two years later.

VOA: standard.2009.06.26

Another,William Kennedy Smith, was tried and acquitted on rape charges, with the senator called to testify.

VOA: standard.2009.08.26

In 2005,Jackson faced charges that he molested a 13-year old boy, and he was acquitted.

VOA: standard.2009.06.28

He said Germans who worked at the Sobibor death camp in then Nazi-occupied Poland, where Demjanjuk is accused of working as a guard, were acquitted in previous trials.

VOA: standard.2009.11.30

Five other defendants in the London trial were acquitted.

VOA: standard.2009.09.07

He was acquitted in a 2006 rape trial, during which he admitted having unsafe sex with an HIV-positive woman, and he came under political pressure recently when it emerged that he fathered a child out of wedlock last year.

VOA: standard.2010.04.26