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exculpatory

ekskuhl puh taw ree

  • a  clearing of guilt or blame

  • And it recounts the atrocities perpetrated on members of the Israeli delegation in dispassionate, mostly exculpatory prose.
  • Brinkema was right, she says, to "not totally destroy" a defendant's right to use exculpatory witnesses to get a fair trial.
  • Mackey subsequently asked the court to dismiss the charges on the grounds that the prosecution had not shared exculpatory information, as required by law.
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  • Alan Dershowitz in International Herald Tribune
    He will in fact be providing very significant exculpatory evidence,in the Krajisnik case, Dershowitz said.
  • Baher Azmy in Newsday
    Kurnaz's lawyer, Baher Azmy, said "ignoring exculpatory evidence and seemingly manufacturing evidence about ties to a supposed suicide bomber demonstrates how profoundly flawed this process is. This is the process the government is asking the court...
  • Mike Nifong in San Francisco Chronicle
    The state is not aware of any additional material or information which may be exculpatory in nature with respect to the defendant,Nifong said in the filing. "Should we learn of the existence of any such material or information in the...

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