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Goof: Girl at End *******SPOILER*******


At the end a young girl bursts from the courthouse, apparently immediately upon hearing the verdict read, and she is shouting "Innocent!"

However, the verdict could only have been Guilty or Not Guilty . . . "Innocent" is not a term that she would have heard.

This has always bothered me.

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It wasn't a *goof* as much as a child's interpretation. Nobody used that word in the court, most likely.

In a kid's eyes, if he is not going to prison, he's *innocent*.


I'd say this cloud is Cumulo Nimbus.
Didn't he discover America?
Penfold, shush.

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Yeah that's what I always took it as. Just an innocent child's understanding of what happened.

There's a moral to this story Del Boy but for the life of me I can't find it!

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It was a boy. And if you're not guilty you ARE innocent. I mean the phrase is "Innocent until proven guilty" right? Well he wasn't proven guilty so therefor he is innocent.













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