exculpate

How To Use exculpate In A Sentence

• An indictment is valid even if the grand jurors have no knowledge, in voting to indict, that evidence exists that would exculpate the defendant.
• The diary is not the one who will always update, but it is only the note of someday, I begin to exculpate from my giving up in the midway.
• The line trotted out to silence awkward civil libertarians is that DNA can be used to exculpate as well as inculpate suspects and that if you have done nothing wrong you have nothing to fear by giving a sample.
• It is likewise the subject of one of the smaller tales in Lane's _Arabian Nights_; but here I must remark, that the Eastern version is decidedly more ingenious than the later ones, inasmuch as it exculpates the keeper of the deposit from the "laches" of which in the other cases she was decidedly guilty. Notes and Queries, Number 39, July 27, 1850
• On several occasions, Vespasiano underscores how the duke kept faith in the face of daunting opposition and recounts how he led nighttime raids on enemy fortifications. 139 Until recently, Montefeltro's reputation, bolstered by biographers and historians, had exculpated him on points for which condottieri were generally held in contempt. Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
• Now you must face them frankly, facing these situations, your instinctive action is "escaping then covering up", trying to exculpate yourself from the trouble.
• The pilot of the aircraft will surely be exculpated when all the facts are known.
• For that reason, ignorance is sometimes voluntarily self-inflicted; Aquinas termed that "vincible" ignorance, which does not exculpate. Archive 2007-09-01
• One of the striking features of both the first and second videos is the insistence with which [Child F] seeks to exculpate her, and the fact that she does so upon her own initiative.
• Is there any precedent of people being exculpated even though they have admitted they are guilty?