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But in far more cases—especially controversial shootings—it captured the chain of events clearly enough for investigators to exonerate officers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

Anna, ironically, works for a nonprofit that seeks to exonerate the wrongly convicted.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026

"We must not exonerate from all responsibility the seven decades that followed independence," he told the magazine, calling on African leaders to improve governance.

From Barron's ● May 11, 2026

Our attention then returns to the original flashpoint in a way that should, in some respects, exonerate Glaude’s teacher.

From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2025

“All you have to do is come up with a lie that will exonerate both Christina and Cara, and then tell it under truth serum.”

From "Allegiant" by Veronica Roth

An Oklahoma judge exonerates a man who spent nearly 50 years in prison on murder charges, the longest serving inmate to be declared innocent of the crime.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 18, 2024

Body camera footage is more routinely made public, whether it exonerates the officers or raises questions.

From New York Times ● Jan. 28, 2023

While this story might be basically accurate, I don’t think it exonerates SBF the way he seems to think it does.

From Slate ● Jan. 13, 2023

"We appreciate that the report exonerates Mr. Baldwin by making clear that he believed the gun held only dummy rounds," the statement posted on Baldwin's Instagram account said.

From Reuters ● Apr. 21, 2022

I can think of no answer that exonerates me.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

The council was exonerated from culpability by the inquest.

From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026

We know that over the past half-century, more than 200 people have been exonerated after having been sentenced to die, and scholars estimate that 4 percent of those sentenced to death are innocent.

From Slate ● Aug. 13, 2026

During Duncan’s campaign last year for New Orleans criminal court clerk, Murrill sent him a letter threatening “further action from this office” if he didn’t stop referring to himself as being exonerated.

From Salon ● Aug. 10, 2026

It pointed to a recent decision by the High Court in London that largely exonerated Renault and four other carmakers from charges that the devices were designed to cheat clean air laws.

From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026

At the cafeteria, where a shrinking slice of my consciousness still resided, Daisy was telling Mychal that his averaging project shouldn’t be about people named Mychal but about imprisoned men who’d later been exonerated.

From "Turtles All the Way Down" by John Green

Only in 1906, after many twists, did the high court of appeal overturn the original verdict, exonerating Dreyfus.

From Barron's ● Nov. 18, 2025

"I think the idea of looking at video games and movies and so on, it's just a way of exonerating the people who are really profiting from the violence."

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2024

Peterson’s attempt to clear his name is now backed by the Los Angeles Innocence Project, a nonprofit legal group with a reputation for exonerating wrongfully convicted criminals.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2024

The audit suggested exonerating her of the policy violation because she “only acted under extreme circumstances and because of her actions she provided valuable assets to the officers and valuable information in identifying the shooter.”

From Salon ● Mar. 8, 2024

Signor," replied Monte-Leone, "it is because I recognize the great importance of the cause, that I confide to this man the duty of exonerating me from it.

From The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 by Various