Definition: In this task, you're given a statement and three sentences as choices. Your job is to determine the neutral choice based on your inference from the statement and your commonsense knowledge. The neutral choice is a sentence that neither agrees nor disagrees with the statement. Indicate your answer as '1', '2', or '3', corresponding to the choice number of the selected sentence. If sentence X agrees with sentence Y, one's correctness follows from the other one. If sentence X disagrees with sentence Y, they can not be correct at the same time.
Input: Statement: I could have cleared him ”though it might have meant a failure to convict the real criminals.  Choices: 1. They brought him up on charges of jaywalking.  2. They decided to let him go. 3. They were afraid of not getting the real criminals and let an innocent man go to jail.

1