exculpate

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We call on medical examiners to evaluate their own biases and conflicts of interest and to stop the misuse of medicine and science to potentially exculpate the police in the racist brutalization of Black men.

From Scientific American

Palmer had been “high-handed and contemptuous” and “gave false evidence, including concocting a story to exculpate himself,” she added.

From Reuters

Thus, Chauvin, as white, could be granted that exculpating doubt despite the evidence shared before millions of viewers in a live-streamed trial.

From Salon

The regime defined itself in the tradition of communists who had resisted fascism, giving rise to a state doctrine of remembrance that effectively exculpated it from wartime atrocities.

From New York Times

Many of the major players are not present — the Kassabs and others are dead, including potentially exculpating witnesses — but Smerling pores over the living witnesses and the evidence, as Morris did with his book.

From New York Times