A word to define a person declared guilty by society but found not guilty in a court of law. A word or phrase to define a person declared guilty by society but found not guilty in law.
Is there a phrase or word to define an individual who is declared guilty by a large section of society because of a crime that he may or may not have committed?
Because the O.J. Simpson case ended in the Simpsons trial, some people still believe that he is guilty of the crime he was accused of. But the O.J. Simpson trial continues to run. This claim was influenced by the fact that he was not found guilty in the trial by the Los Angeles County Superior Court. So according to many people he was guilty but according to the Court he was not guilty.
Why was O.J Simpson convicted of murder?
I searched many websites to find the word “criminology” and couldn’t find a word. Apart from that, I checked several media reports that covered the trial, but did not come across any such word.
I am interested in words personally! In case such a word doesn’t exist, a phrase will do.
The word paria h expresses the rejection of an individual by a society on the basis of prejudice rather than justice. To summarize my brief comment on the OJ Simpson Case, just mentioning it since the OP does so:- An article in the
New Yorker (published in 2001, six years after his 1995 acquittal) says that of OJ Simpson : Now he wants vindication.
Only then should someone make him forget the stigma he has received from AmeriCorps, who transformed him from being a patriot to a pariah and living out his days in a pathetic imitation of his former life.
Merriam Webster: Pariah,
a member of a scheduled tribe of South
India concentrated in southern Kerala and
Tamil Nadu, originally functioning notably as sorcerers and ceremonial drummers and also as labourers and servants but later increasingly as untouchables in insanitary occupations.
But,
to be honest, what are the questions that raise them?
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Is the Court system effective in acquitting the innocent or condemning the guilty?
Why have we been told to read the above list?
Social outcast
Merriam-Webster
one that is cast out or refused acceptance, as by society
(as by society)
