exculpate

The documentary includes an interview with a whistleblower who claimed bosses told him to doctor evidence to exculpate the agency in the death of Hernández Rojas.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 9, 2026

“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

“Much like with the Covington Catholic kids, the situation was a hoax, but in the show the full video doesn’t exculpate Ari’s aggressive and hostile interaction,” said the MRC analysis.

From Washington Times ● May 10, 2019

Does her more recent message exculpate me, or am I still indicted by the first?

From New York Times ● Feb. 9, 2019

How was she to escape from them, or to exculpate herself?

From Humours of Irish Life by Various

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

A closer view exculpates the reredos, for it turns out that the window is placed so unusually high in the wall that none of it is concealed by the great altar.

From Stained Glass Tours in England by Charles Hitchcock Sherrill

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

When the unhappy men found their companions were condemned to die, they avowed the fact, and exculpated all others from any share in the deed.

From An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans by Lydia Maria Francis Child

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

She had been listening intensely, exculpating him at every point, and now his innocence all flashed upon her.

From A Modern Instance by William Dean Howells