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Why bother creating a third outcome? If a defendant is found not guilty, then the expenses and time of arrest/imprisonment/trial are damages and they should be fully compensated. Anything less is externalizing the cost of policing onto innocent victims, accompanied by all the usual problems from moral hazard.



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