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• v  pronounce not guilty of criminal charges
• s  freed from any question of guilt

• Just this week, a parliamentary inquiry exonerated Blair's government on the charge that it "sexed up" intelligence reports to exaggerate the threat posed by Saddam's regime, but .
• Cooper, who also endured 19 lawsuits by the church, was finally exonerated in 1977 after FBI raids on the church offices in Los Angeles and Washington uncovered documents from the .
• After a grand jury investigation into a stock purchase in a harness-racing corporation whose legislative cause he had championed, the exonerated Powell commented: "It wound up .

• acquit
• assoil
• clear
• discharge
• exonerate
• exculpate
• absolved
• cleared
• exculpated
• vindicated

• convict

News & Articles

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• Napa company uses 'CSI' technology to solve cases
  It’s the little things that make all the difference for Gregg Stutchman and his team at Stutchman Forensic Laboratory in Napa. In Stutchman’s work, the smallest detail can result in someone going to prison or being exonerated.
  June 10, 2013 - Napa Valley Register
• Expect a full 9 innings to resolve Biogenesis scandal
  However the Biogenesis scandal plays out, it could be several weeks before we learn who is suspended and who was exonerated.
  June 9, 2013 - NBC26 Green Bay
• Governor signs law to pay those who are wrongly incarcerated in prison
  DENVER — After spending eighteen years behinds bars for a murder he never committed, an exonerated inmate is learning how...
  June 6, 2013 - FOX 31 Denver

Quotes

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• Scott McClellan in Belfast Telegraph
  Tantalisingly the excerpts provide no detail about what they may have done: "I stood at the White house briefing room podium in front of the glare of the klieg lights for the better part of two weeks and publicly exonerated two of the senior most...
• Arlen Specter in Guardian Unlimited
  If Craig had not pleaded guilty in August to a reduced charge and instead demanded a trial, "I believe he would have been exonerated," Specter said.
• Peter Hain in Times Online
  In a statement, Mr Hain said: "The Cabinet Secretary stated that I complied fully with the Ministerial Code, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) exonerated me and now the Parliamentary authorities have also accepted that the mistakes I made were...