exonerate

The goal of these tactics is not to exonerate the person using them from allegations of criminality, corruption or incompetence.

From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2026

But in far more cases—especially controversial shootings—it captured the chain of events clearly enough for investigators to exonerate officers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

"We must not exonerate from all responsibility the seven decades that followed independence," he told the magazine, calling on African leaders to improve governance.

From Barron's ● May 11, 2026

He specifically asked if it would look for DNA evidence that could exonerate him - evidence that would point to an alternative suspect.

From BBC ● May 13, 2025

“That isn’t her doing,” Lazlo said, not to dismiss the threat, but at least to exonerate Sarai.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

An Oklahoma judge exonerates a man who spent nearly 50 years in prison on murder charges, the longest serving inmate to be declared innocent of the crime.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 18, 2024

Body camera footage is more routinely made public, whether it exonerates the officers or raises questions.

From New York Times ● Jan. 28, 2023

While this story might be basically accurate, I don’t think it exonerates SBF the way he seems to think it does.

From Slate ● Jan. 13, 2023

"We appreciate that the report exonerates Mr. Baldwin by making clear that he believed the gun held only dummy rounds," the statement posted on Baldwin's Instagram account said.

From Reuters ● Apr. 21, 2022

I can think of no answer that exonerates me.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

But now, authorities have officially exonerated him — acknowledging his innocence in the 1998 Fullerton heist that robbed him of nearly two decades of his life.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026

We know that over the past half-century, more than 200 people have been exonerated after having been sentenced to die, and scholars estimate that 4 percent of those sentenced to death are innocent.

From Slate ● Aug. 13, 2026

These include cases in which the men were exonerated through DNA or blood evidence and others in which police are accused of fabricating evidence.

From Salon ● Aug. 10, 2026

It pointed to a recent decision by the High Court in London that largely exonerated Renault and four other carmakers from charges that the devices were designed to cheat clean air laws.

From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026

At the cafeteria, where a shrinking slice of my consciousness still resided, Daisy was telling Mychal that his averaging project shouldn’t be about people named Mychal but about imprisoned men who’d later been exonerated.

From "Turtles All the Way Down" by John Green

Brian Atlas of the “Whatever” podcast posted a video of the alleged victim drinking with Peters, as if it were exonerating evidence instead of bolstering the criminal case against him.

From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2026

Only in 1906, after many twists, did the high court of appeal overturn the original verdict, exonerating Dreyfus.

From Barron's ● Nov. 18, 2025

But just weeks before the retrial, she saw a link to a new podcast series aimed at "exonerating" Weinstein.

From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2025

The Los Angeles Innocence Project, a nonprofit legal group with a reputation for exonerating wrongfully convicted criminals, is seeking to clear Peterson in the killings of Laci Peterson and their unborn son, Conner.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2024

Whoever examines, carefully, this letter to Richards, cannot, I think, but conclude that, instead of exonerating Mather, it fixes upon him the responsibility for the worst features of the Witchcraft Trials.

From Salem Witchcraft and Cotton Mather A Reply by Charles Wentworth Upham