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Jury Statement, April 12, 1922:

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| Arbuckle and the jury that acquitted him. Minta Arbuckle is at the far left, beside her mother. |
"Acquittal is not enough for Roscoe Arbuckle. We feel that a great injustice has been done him. We feel also that it
was only our plain duty to give him this exoneration, under the evidence, for there was not the slightest proof adduced to
connect him in any way with the commission of a crime.
He was manly throughout the case, and told a straightforward story on the witness stand, which we all believed. The happening
at the hotel was an unfortunate affair for which Arbuckle, so the evidence shows, was in no way responsible.
We wish him success and hope that the American people will take the judgement of fourteen men and women who have sat listening
for thirty-one days to the evidence, that Roscoe Arbuckle is entirely innocent and free of all blame."
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