exculpate
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A trio of new evidence helped exculpate Ian Schweitzer.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 25, 2023
He devises a daring, sometimes distracting but ultimately inspired format by saving his commentary for footnotes that contextualize, teasingly contradict and occasionally exculpate Rodgers from her unsparing self-assessments.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2022
“It does not vary either to exculpate on the basis of the actor’s unusual callousness or to condemn for outraging an excessively delicate relative of the deceased,” Rennie wrote, citing the Model Penal Code.
From Seattle Times ● May 24, 2022
Does her more recent message exculpate me, or am I still indicted by the first?
From New York Times ● Feb. 9, 2019
This remark was supposed to completely exculpate him.
From The Fourth Estate, vol. 2 by Armando Palacio Vald?s
In response, Bauer attorney Shawn Holley wrote: “There is no public interest in shielding those who make materially misleading complaints from disclosure of information that exculpates the alleged perpetrator.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2022
I’m not certain how to articulate what was different in a way anyone would find remotely credible, but I’m certain that it was real, and that it exculpates me.
From Slate ● Apr. 25, 2019
In one passage, a “former partner” pointedly exculpates Bell: “When the Gupta project first arose, senior members of the Geopolitical team, including Bell, were quite outspoken that we should not do it.”
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 18, 2018
Saletan believes that a distinction between historical science and modern science is what exculpates the creationist:
From Salon ● Feb. 20, 2014
It is fair to Sixtus to say that Montesecco exculpates him of the design to murder the Medici.
From Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots by John Addington Symonds
Hegseth quickly agreed with Hannity that he had been fully exculpated by the California police.
From Slate ● Dec. 12, 2024
However the public chose to remember her, the German government exculpated Mata Hari in 1930.
From Time ● Oct. 13, 2017
He was exculpated by DNA evidence and freed in 2009 after 31 years in prison for a rape he did not commit.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 28, 2016
The last trial was, in many ways, the most astonishing, because it came four years after new DNA evidence had exculpated Rivera.
From The New Yorker ● May 22, 2015
I say the Creed; for Christianity cannot be exculpated.
From Flowers of Freethought (First Series) by G. W. (George William) Foote
Even Ihsan’s parents’ statements exculpating Ameen were invalid; their only admissible testimony was what was written by Dhiya, which they insist is fraudulent.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 20, 2020
Meanwhile the summary punishment of plant operatives and midlevel functionaries, exculpating Soviet brass, ranks among its “final show trials,” Higginbotham writes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2019
It ends with archive television news footage of voters largely exculpating him after the inquest in 1970.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 5, 2018
Carter Dillard, director of litigation at the Animal Legal Defense Fund, said the use of animal DNA is also “not uncommon in dog bite cases, and is valuable for exculpating innocent animals.”
From Washington Post ● Nov. 7, 2016
He thought her conduct hard, cold, and selfish, and he held himself absolved by the scandal she had caused from all duties towards her, and entirely justified in exculpating himself as best he might.
From A Noble Name or D?nninghausen by Claire Von Gl?mer
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