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Not guilty yet, or just hasn't been caught thinking about it.
means Free from guilt or wrongdoing — or simply unaware of how the world really works.
from From Latin innocens — in- 'not' plus nocens, 'harmful,' from the verb nocere, 'to harm or hurt' (the same root that gives us 'noxious' and 'innocuous'). So an innocent person was, quite literally, 'one who does no harm' — a meaning that slowly drifted from harmlessness in action to purity in guilt or knowledge.
- legal default
- presumed until proven otherwise, in theory
- etymology
- latin for not harming, in-plus-nocere
- childhood version
- ignorance mistaken for virtue
- courtroom twist
- verdicts say not guilty, never innocent