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exoneration

noun as in vindication

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noun as in liberation

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Often there is more than one cause, with official misconduct cropping up in more than half of all exonerations.

From Time

The 61-year-old retires in June after directing the exoneration program since its inception almost two decades ago.

Each exoneration took her an average of six years, Nethercott said.

The article described how, even after Steese was proven innocent 17 years after his conviction, the Clark County District Attorney’s Office fought his exoneration.

People are also now more aware of the at least 174 death row exonerations that have occurred since the 1970s, including the exoneration of Virginian Earl Washington, who was released in 2000 after spending 17 years in prison.

From Time

But Rosenthal withheld an official exoneration, which would have entitled Rodriguez to a potential $1.4 million in state money.

Lykos recommended an exoneration and a judge accepted, clearing the way for Rodriguez to collect his compensation.

The most recent exoneration came in March for George Rodriguez, who served 17 years for a rape he did not commit.

Mollohan portrayed the end of the inquiry as an exoneration and is seeking his 15th term in the House in the November elections.

They will satisfy you, I think, that the exoneration I seek will be a simple act of justice.

And there was too the impulse for further self-exoneration, to be assured that she was right, to feel that she was injured.

The plea of exoneration was that those gifts had been freely accepted without pledging the vote.

She was waiting the word of forgiveness from the one she loved best of all, but Peggy was awaiting Tzaritza's exoneration.

Listen, Florrie, here's something that pleases me as much as my exoneration by the Board of Inquiry.

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On this page you'll find 21 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to exoneration, such as: absolution, acquittal, exculpation, and pardon.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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