exculpated


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Synonyms for exculpated

freed from any question of guilt

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He said that at the trial, his lawyers produced a letter that exculpated them.
If convicted, he must have been exculpated. 3- Must not be suffering from any physical or mental illness which would hinder performing his official presidential duties.
It is de facto that sentiment of extremism cannot be exculpated merely by resistance by the law and enforcement agencies.
He basically exculpated a brutal murderer by stating how "lucky" Christians were to escape his brutality.
Non-exculpated defendants run the risk of joint and several liability for the entire amount of a judgment without any reduction for the damages caused by the conduct of exculpated defendants.
There were songs and broadsheets, recounting his adventures, and though the Perrys could now be exculpated of murder, still the ballads told of Joan Perry's witchcraft and evil ways.
On the one hand, it enables the maintenance of the belief that justice will eventually be done, either before conviction when innocent parties will be exculpated, or afterwards in the form of exoneration, evidenced by the success of the Innocence Project.
He suggested that the prosecutor assigned to the case, Snezhana Kopcheva, had exculpated the violations of the energy companies.
I'm not saying that you are exculpated from any pressure merely because you meet the rule of law - we've never said that, we don't live that life.
As Moore puts it: By mid-wartime, Americans had come to understand 'Germany's self-chosen special path had ended in disaster for itself and others and that the German people could not be exculpated by collectively being declared victims of their regime', (p.
The government was not exculpated by the cease-fire monitors, who said that a major reason for the present deterioration of the truce was the activity of paramilitary forces in government-held areas.
I DISAGREE profoundly with Chris Moncrieff Behind the Speaker's Chair,May 13) when he exculpated Clare Short because she dared to voice a growing concern of a majority of other-minded thoughtful people in or outside Parliament.