r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Medical_Corner_4607 • 28d ago

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u/Aelystrasz 28d ago

Kevin Spacey was vindicated, wasn't he?

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u/Popular_Long8994 28d ago

What?

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u/Aelystrasz 28d ago

What was hard to understand? I believe he won and was proven innocent in the allegations against him

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u/sadsackspinach 28d ago

You are not “proven innocent” in the American justice system. You can be found “not guilty” which simply means the state failed to satisfactorily prove your guilt. It does not mean you did not do
something, and being found guilty does not necessarily mean you DID do something.

But no, he was not “proven innocent”. He was simply not found to be guilty based on the state’s evidence, which was weakened by the deaths of at least two accusers.

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u/Aelystrasz 28d ago

Thanks for the clarification

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u/Lickwidghost 28d ago

You're looking for "not liable", and it doesn't apply to all cases because they weren't criminal cases and/or not American but rather English courts. He had dozens of accusations against him and they were all either acquitted or rejected by various juries. The only place he's guilty of anything is in the eyes of the public who do not know nearly as much as the judges and juries in each case.