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The verdicts that never came: none can exist on a ground with no homicide in its record

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County court record separated from the cold-case list, as the row directs

The row asks that acquitted and untried homicide clusters be separated from the cold-case list and printed as their own class. The separation is made, and both sides print: the cold-case list's side is art-80-4 — three district names, none from this ground. The verdicts side: an acquitted or untried homicide requires a homicide prosecution, and the Crime leg's swept frame seats no murder case in Osceola or Penn Township at all — no trial, therefore no acquittal; no charge, therefore no untried cluster. The county's one major prosecution on this ground, Pleasureland (2000–2003), ended in pleas, and it was a vice case, not a homicide — it belongs to neither side of this article's line and is not moved onto either. Tested negative: the verdicts-that-never-came class is empty for this ground, and it is empty by the record's structure, not by a failure to look.

Sources: Crime & Public Safety (banked: county sweep; Pleasureland pleas; GAP-O4 register).

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Source: The verdicts that never came: none can exist on a ground with no homicide in its record, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/osceola/cold-cases/verdicts-that-never-came-none-can-exist-on-a/