How to Use exculpatory in a Sentence

exculpatory

adjective

• The judge then ordered for one of the tips to be unredacted due to its exculpatory value.
  — Lauren Castle, azcentral, 2 Apr. 2020
• There is the persistent use of the exculpatory passive voice, for one thing.
  — Lorraine Berry, Los Angeles Times, 2 Dec. 2021
• The question is, did the case agent and the intel agent refuse to tell the system about exculpatory information?
  — Jerry Dunleavy, Washington Examiner, 8 June 2020
• But in trying to present this as exculpatory, Zuckerberg this misses the point.
  — Brian Barrett, WIRED, 10 Apr. 2018
• Worse still is the board’s own exculpatory report, written by the law firm Shearman and Sterling.
  — Peter Conti-Brown, Fortune, 31 Aug. 2017
• For one, the best time to bring exculpatory evidence is before someone is found at fault and punished, not after.
  — Michael McCann, SI.com, 26 Aug. 2017
• Still, the exculpatory evidence opened the door for a good deal for Loughlin and Giannulli, Honig said.
  — Mark Morales, CNN, 21 Aug. 2020
• The accused often lack legal counsel and may not get the chance to present exculpatory evidence.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 7 May 2018
• But very early on, Dr. Stone came to believe that their job was in fact to rubber-stamp the government’s own self-exculpatory assessment.
  — New York Times, 1 Feb. 2022
• The latest turn in the winding case emerged this week when the county filed a motion to dismiss Brown's suit by claiming the evidence that freed him wasn't really exculpatory and didn't need to be turned over.
  — Keri Blakinger, Houston Chronicle, 9 May 2018
• For example, there was a rifle that was clearly exculpatory to my client.
  — Briana Stewart, ABC News, 30 May 2021
• Despite Don Jr.’s posing, nothing in the e-mail is exculpatory.
  — David Harsanyi, National Review, 14 July 2017
• Such documents will likely be exculpatory for Ripple and reveal that Ethereum investors and their lawyers played a role in writing Hinman’s speech.
  — Roslyn Layton, Forbes, 30 Jan. 2022
• The statement appeared to support Mr. Boncy’s arguments that the calls had been exculpatory.
  — Dylan Tokar, WSJ, 28 June 2022
• During the summer of 2019, Flynn changed legal teams and claimed innocence, saying the FBI had set him up and exculpatory evidence had been concealed.
  — Sydney Shea, Washington Examiner, 24 Nov. 2020
• The great irony is that participation in the impeachment inquiry would give the White House an opportunity to bring exculpatory facts to light.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 9 Oct. 2019
• In fact, some of the testimony from the federal trial was exculpatory.
  — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 13 Mar. 2021
• The Sea Lady might be an exculpatory study of romantic folly and erotic pursuit.
  — Stephanie Burt, The New Republic, 29 Mar. 2022
• Many of these buildings were simply bad to begin with, though the reasons why are complex and in no ways exculpatory of Grenfell’s hapless political stewards.
  — Ian Volner, The Atlantic, 19 June 2017
• But the donors saw exculpatory evidence for Patterson in them.
  — Julie Zauzmer, Washington Post, 4 July 2018
• And under a Supreme Court case called Brady v. Maryland, the prosecution has a duty to disclose all exculpatory evidence.
  — Briana Stewart, ABC News, 30 May 2021
• Contrary to the government’s claims and the Court’s decision, the evidence of Force’s (and Bridges’s) corruption was both material and exculpatory.
  — Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 12 Jan. 2016
• In essence, the exculpatory story is that the president hands out hush money so readily that his attorney has carte blanche to cut six-figure payoff checks on his behalf without checking with the client.
  — Matthew Yglesias, Vox, 3 May 2018
• The witnesses could only be exculpatory, so even a Republican senator should want to hear from them.
  — Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 16 Jan. 2020
• The Brady Rule requires prosecutors to turn over exculpatory evidence to the defense.
  — New York Times, 5 Mar. 2021
• Only the emergence of an exculpatory video saved them from prosecution.
  — Gilbert Garcia, ExpressNews.com, 1 May 2020
• The judge noted that the government is already required to share exculpatory information with the defense but isn't obligated to share its entire case file.
  — Laura A. Bischoff, The Enquirer, 26 Jan. 2022
• But mental illness is not exculpatory in itself: A defendant may be found mentally ill and still competent enough to stand trial.
  — Mac McClelland, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2017
• In the landmark Brady decision, the Supreme Court ruled that prosecutors must provide exculpatory information to defense counsel.
  — Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 29 Mar. 2023
• Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart's protective order also prevents the two men from sharing discovery − or potentially exculpatory information provided by the government − with the public or the media.
  — Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 20 June 2023

Last Updated: 1 Dec 2024