Not proven sufficient for the verdict ""guilty"", which has replaced the older verdict ""proven"". Approximately one third of all acquittal verdicts by Scottish juries use the formulation "Not proven"; the others use "Not guilty". The verdict ""Not proven"" also is available for judges in the summary procedure, and is employed in about a fifth of the "summary" acquittals. The proportion of "Not proven" acquittals in general is higher in the more severe cases; but so then are the proportion of acquittals "versus" convictions. This might have many different reasons, e.g., that in average it might be factually more complicated to establish guilt
The Guilty Mother The Guilty Mother The Guilty Mother () subtitled "The Other Tartuffe" is the third play of the "Figaro" trilogy by Pierre Beaumarchais; its predecessors were "The Barber of Seville" and "The Marriage of Figaro". This was the author's last play. It is rarely revived. Like the earlier plays of the trilogy it has been turned into operatic form, but it has not entered the general opera repertoire. The characters of Figaro and his associates were so popular that other dramatists had written sequels to "The Barber of Seville" and "The Marriage of Figaro", most notably M-N Delon, who brought out