exoneration

Example Sentences

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Salaam, who was 15 years old when his life was upended, was imprisoned for six years and eight months before his exoneration.

From Salon

Yet it is one of the case’s painful ironies that to this day it is the arrest and not the ultimate exoneration that is remembered.

From Los Angeles Times

I get that feeling again each time I see celebratory images from a new exoneration.

From Washington Post

But you have to keep in mind that a lot of exonerations at first sounded like “a likely story.”

From Los Angeles Times

The conviction rate is abysmal, but the process of exoneration serves the political purpose of spreading fear, critics say.

From New York Times