culpability

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Two jurors interviewed after the verdict said the eight days of deliberation were filled with questions about culpability and what signal they wanted their decisions to send to Meta and YouTube.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

It’s a culpability we should all interrogate, not immediately purge.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2026

That this didn’t happen has sparked a back-and-forth about culpability, with Deadline reporting BAFTA’s assurance that it made the BBC and the broadcast’s producers aware that the slur was audible shortly after Davidson blurted it.

From Salon • Mar. 1, 2026

“When a crime requires no proof of mens rea,” the court said, “it is impossible to evaluate the culpability of defendants convicted of the offense under every factual scenario.”

From Slate • Dec. 29, 2025

Officials began to suspect that Myers was the sole killer and was desperately trying to implicate others to minimize his culpability.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson