exonerate

Hank’s not wrong that a man in his defensive crouch can’t exonerate himself.

The effort to exonerate him was led in part by the Los Angeles Innocence Project and the California Forensic Science Institute at Cal State LA.

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.

The decision pays off in the film’s third act, when Matthew is exonerated in the court of the public and receives the adoration he’s been trying to leech from Oliver.