Thanks, but from what I can see that is a prosecutor dropping charges due to a lack of evidence. That’s quite different from a court producing a verdict of absolute innocence after a trial.
Lots and lots of people have charges dropped against them. A lot of them are in fact guilty of the accusation.
Did you read it? Cooper said innocent of the charges many times over. Maybe if you had been watching the coverage at the time, you would see it in a different light. There was talk about it being so unique to use the word innocent, for a few hours before the announcement, and then a few days after it. It blew everyone’s mind. So it wasn’t just that the charges were dropped. Those young men were pronounced “innocent”. It was talked about as the first time in American legal history that the word innocent was used. I don’t know what the legal books all say now, but at the time, it was unheard of.
This mentions actual innocence and has citations for it.
http://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3056&context=faculty_scholarship