innocent
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So, why would an innocent prisoner seek compassionate release?
From Slate • May 29, 2026
“It seems innocent, but you don’t know what’s happening in the background,” says Mayra Rosario Fuentes, a senior threat researcher at the consumer digital-protection research firm TrendLife.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026
“I had painted this image of my dad — that he’s such a good guy, he was so innocent, and I was taken from him by my grandma,” Okatsuka says.
From Los Angeles Times • May 27, 2026
"But, above all, it is painful. It stigmatises an innocent man."
From BBC • May 20, 2026
Now as I began to grasp the solitaire game, I wondered what Father’s resistance to them had been—surely nothing could be more innocent than this succession of shapes called clubs, spades, diamonds.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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