2015 Event Ehud Olmert, former prime minister of Israel, is sentenced to eight months in prison after new evidence emerges proving corruption charges for which he had been acquitted three years ago 2011 Event Rejean Hinse, a Quebec man wrongly convicted of a crime in the 1960s and acquitted 30 years later, receives $13.1 million in compensation 2009 Event Former Serbian President Milan Mulutinovic is acquitted of war crimes during the Kosovo War 1991 Event El Sayid Nosair acquitted of killing Meir Kahane 1990 Event 3 members of 2 Live Crew acquitted on obsenity charges in Florida 1987 Event Subway gunman Bernhard Goetz acquitted after shooting 4 youths who tried to rob him 1987 Event John Gotti is acquitted of racketeering 1986 Event Shalamar's Howard Hewett acquitted in Miami of drug charges 1985 Event Claus von Bulow acquitted on charges he tried to murder his wife 1982 Event Car maker John DeLorean indicted for drug trafficking, later acquitted 1981 Event Dr. George Nichopoulas is acquitted of overprescribing addictive drugs for Elvis Presley 1975 Event Joanne Little acquitted of murder charges 1972 Event Angela Davis, black activist, acquitted of killing a white guard 1961 Event After a 4 year trial Nelson Mandela is acquitted on treason charge 1924 Event Hitler sentenced to 5 years labor but General Ludendorff acquitted 1910 Event Former Dutch premier Abraham Kuyper acquitted of corruption 1908 Birthday Maurice Stans, born in Shaokopee, Minnesota, Maurice Hubert Stans, President Richard Nixon's finance chairmen, acquitted in Watergate, U.S. Deputy Postmaster General 1955 - 57, U.S. Secretary of Commerce 1969 - 1972 1899 Event Alfred Dreyfus' acquitted 1893 Event Lizzie Borden acquitted in murder of parents in New Bedford Mass 1893 Event Lizzie Bordon acquitted 1876 Event President Grants private-secretary Orville acquitted in Whiskey Ring 1859 Event Dan Sickles is acquitted of murder on grounds of temporary insanity 1st time this defense is successfully used 1807 Event Aaron Burr acquitted of a misdemeanor charge 1807 Event Aaron Burr acquitted of charges of plotting to set up an empire 1807 Event Former Vice President Aaron Burr is tried for treason in Richmond Virginia (acquitted) 1795 Event William Hastings acquitted in England of high treason 1734 Event John Zenger, arrested for libel against New York col gov; later acquitted 1456 Event Though she had already been executed, Joan of Arc is acquitted
