exonerated

Even if the innocent are exonerated, the process is the punishment.

While he was exonerated for the murder charge, his drug conviction still stands, they have said.

They were exonerated more than a decade later through DNA evidence and a confession from the true assailant.

The toxicology screen had “completely exonerated” Cervantes, the filing said, but the police department had already “released false information to the press claiming that Senator Cervantes had driven while under the influence of drugs.”

Four federal investigations and a grand jury probe later, Baltimore’s colleague, and Baltimore himself, were exonerated.