exculpated

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However the public chose to remember her, the German government exculpated Mata Hari in 1930.

From Time • Oct. 13, 2017

After spending decades in prison, they learned from an article in the Washington Post that prosecutors had withheld evidence that could have exculpated them.

From Slate • Apr. 1, 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

The notorious Bishop of Clogher, for instance, exculpated himself in a criminal information by an affidavit, and the result was, the man who published the truth of that wretch groaned in a jail!!!

From Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume I (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte by Hamilton, Lady Anne