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Deen may be past the point of complete public exoneration, but at least she has integrity to help her sleep at night — no stone over the head required.

The spokesperson added: "We stand ready to annihilate Ms Pisciotta's tall tales before a jury − an exoneration so inevitable that even she, lost in her fog of fantasy, must surely see it coming."

This new script is exemplified by stories of death row inmates who have been freed by revelations of injustice and of others who were executed despite strong cases for exoneration.

Ultimately, Smith categorically rejected “claims that dismissal of his criminal cases signifies Mr. Trump's ‘complete exoneration.’”

After that, DNA exonerations became almost common, and startling similarities between the cases began to emerge.