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> There is a big difference between "Innocent" and "not guilty"

No, there isn't. Innocence is precisely the absence of guilt; to be innocent is to be not guilty and vice versa.

There is. Innocent means you did not commit the crime. Not Guilty, OTOH, means that the current presented evidence was not sufficient to determine that you did commit the crime, thus not meeting its burden of proof.

Juries only rule guilty or not guilty - innocence comes up in appealing existing guilty convictions.

In Scotland, juries can return one of three rulings: "guilty", "not guilty", and "not proven". I'm not sure what effect this has in practice.

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