Originally Posted by
Herod
Posidrive. As far as I'm aware, that is the case in England. Scotland has an additional verdict of "not proven". It doesn't mean you're innocent, but they cannot secure a guilty verdict.
Wrong!
In Scottish law there is strictly no distinction between a not guilty and not proven verdict. The reason for this oddity is historic and beyond the scope of this forum.
The "not proven" verdict is however widely mis-understood (in Scotland) by the general public as being that the accused was guilty, but got away with their offence.