culpable
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Iskander, on the witness stand on Tuesday, echoed her attorney Brian Panish, who promised to show the pitcher and his then-girlfriend were both culpable because they were racing on the residential street.
From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2026
After all, hadn’t he been sure that the four boys falsely accused of the crime—two of whom served more than nine years in prison for it—had been culpable, too?
From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026
If found culpable, he could be suspended from the practice of law or disbarred in D.C.
From Slate • Mar. 11, 2026
He has previously said he was not complicit or culpable in Epstein's crimes and has apologised to the women and girls who suffered.
From BBC • Feb. 4, 2026
And since Las Casas historians, clerics, and political activists have debated whether Europeans and their descendants in the Americas are morally culpable for the enormous Indian losses.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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