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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Tending to clear someone, especially a suspect, of guilt or blame; exonerative.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Fitted or intended to clear from a charge of fault or guilt; exonerating; excusing: as, exculpatory evidence.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • Clearing, or tending to clear, from alleged fault or guilt; excusing.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective excusing or clearing of any wrongdoing.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective clearing of guilt or blame

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Examples

  • BRAND: I think you would want to press the procedures that were used, see whether the wiretaps have been legitimately authorized, whether all the material that was wiretapped, including some things that we lawyers call exculpatory -- that is, things that tend to prove your innocence -- are not on the tapes or that should be on the tapes and available to you.

    CNN Transcript Dec 11, 2008 2008

  • Local public defenders wonder whether police preserve so-called exculpatory videos, the kind of tapes that could get a client off the hook.

    CNN Transcript Jul 10, 2007 2007

  • Local public defenders wonder whether police preserve so-called exculpatory videos, the kind of tapes that could get a client off the hook.

    CNN Transcript Jul 9, 2007 2007

  • Local public defenders wonder whether police preserve so-called exculpatory videos, the kind of tapes that could get a client off the hook.

    CNN Transcript Jul 10, 2007 2007

  • Local public defenders wonder whether police preserve so-called exculpatory videos, the kind of tapes that could get a client off the hook.

    CNN Transcript Jul 9, 2007 2007

  • I look for the so-called exculpatory evidence in any case because it's only going to strengthen an investigation.

    CNN Transcript Nov 17, 2006 2006

  • FRANK BUCKLEY, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Michael Jackson attorney Ben Brafman carried binders that he said contained more than 100 items of so-called exculpatory material, things that would cast doubt on Jackson's guilt.

    CNN Transcript Apr 2, 2004 2004

  • But most important, something called exculpatory evidence.

    CNN Transcript Sep 2, 2003 2003

  • I mean, if there's anything that's more exculpatory, that is it.

    CNN Transcript Aug 23, 2001 2001

  • These are the kinds of lies that courts used to excuse under a doctrine called the exculpatory no.

    NYT > Home Page By JEFFREY ROSEN 2011

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