But these reasons let everyone off the hook: they were innocent victims of unusual circumstances.
Now it seems the cucumbers were innocent (though some may have been contaminated with another strain).
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Defense might be wise to change claim that prosecution witnesses pled guilty when they were innocent.
Just six months earlier these opaque, tongue-punishingly tannic drinks were innocent grape juice.
The men signed statements to say they were innocent after being formally charged in a fast-track court.
However, the Kaleys believed they were innocent of the charges and simply wanted to defend themselves against the charges.
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Mr Kenyatta insisted during the debate that he and his running mate were innocent and would defend themselves vigorously.
Previously, compensation was only awarded for a miscarriage of justice if a claimant could effectively prove they were innocent.
Their lawyers convinced the court that most of the information they had collected was widely available, and that their intentions were innocent.
Though his father did not believe that he should plead guilty if he were innocent, his stepmother beseeched him to take the deal.
Robson downplayed the remark Friday, saying that the friendships were innocent.
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She had read nine impact statements and a common element was that Crombie "took over their lives and effectively seduced what were innocent and trusting girls".
Lacking tools to sort all the genes, drug firms had no good way to know which new genes were truly linked to disease and which were innocent bystanders.
Even toffs were innocent, little dreaming how a vulgar commercial world would create a new elite to supplant them stocky, energetic men who earned their fortunes and bought their furniture.
Abu Dhabi TV said the men had been arrested by the Marines but were innocent and that the club they guarded was where Iraqi police have been meeting to restart a police force.
"A lot of innocent people were hurt and a lot of innocent people were put at risk, " he said.
But surely, I asked, as children, the two boys had clung to the idea that their parents were unconditionally innocent.
He added that after thorough investigations any who were considered innocent would be released and the guilty would be severely punished.
But eyewitnesses using sequential line-ups named fillers as criminals that is, they wrongly accused people who were definitely innocent three times more often than witnesses who looked at traditional line-ups.
In fact, the houses that did it were exactly the ones no-one suspected, and the houses everyone thought were doing it were as innocent as a newborn baby.
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"They were the innocent victims of what had gone on - it struck the window of the house and there was a young family in there, " he said.
We were entirely innocent in that sense of the word.
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The dogs which were most likely to "look guilty", according to their owners, were those who were entirely innocent and had then been told off by owners who believed that they had stolen treats.
The jury, which deliberated for just over two days, heard Valle's potential victims testify that they were trading innocent-sounding emails and texts with him, unaware he was supposedly scheming to make meals out of them.
This in turn enabled her to act as though she were utterly innocent, even when claiming to be the cousin of an imprisoned Scottish captain, or chatting to a Gestapo officer with 200lb of illegal pork in her suitcase.
The American government insists that the recently captured Turks were not so innocent.
And, finally, when those innocent souls were taken from us they left behind unfulfilled work and tasks that remain undone.
In the days before DNA testing, this meant a lot of innocent people were imprisoned, and many put to death.
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Until well into the trial, many of his patients were convinced Shipman was innocent, and sure the police had got it wrong.
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