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
  • Levy did not find those messages exculpatory.
    — Sammy Sussman, Vulture, 8 Aug. 2025
  • For example, there was a rifle that was clearly exculpatory to my client.
    — Briana Stewart, ABC News, 30 May 2021
  • But in trying to present this as exculpatory, Zuckerberg this misses the point.
    — Brian Barrett, WIRED, 10 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • The accused often lack legal counsel and may not get the chance to present exculpatory evidence.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 7 May 2018
  • And his exculpatory claim that parking fee revenues benefit the park raises doubts.
    — U T Readers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Apr. 2026
  • Worse still is the board’s own exculpatory report, written by the law firm Shearman and Sterling.
    — Peter Conti-Brown, Fortune, 31 Aug. 2017
  • Only the emergence of an exculpatory video saved them from prosecution.
    — Gilbert Garcia, ExpressNews.com, 1 May 2020
  • But the donors saw exculpatory evidence for Patterson in them.
    — Julie Zauzmer, Washington Post, 4 July 2018
  • In fact, some of the testimony from the federal trial was exculpatory.
    — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 13 Mar. 2021
  • Prosecutors have a duty to turn over such exculpatory evidence under the law.
    — Greg Moran, sandiegouniontribune.com, 16 June 2017
  • 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 Sea Lady might be an exculpatory study of romantic folly and erotic pursuit.
    — Stephanie Burt, The New Republic, 29 Mar. 2022
  • His case was dismissed mid-trial after the judge found that the prosecution had withheld exculpatory evidence from the defense.
    — Stephanie Giang-Paunon, Fox News, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Mullins rejected that argument on the grounds that exculpatory information must always be shared.
    — Shelly Bradbury, Denver Post, 13 May 2026
  • Still, the exculpatory evidence opened the door for a good deal for Loughlin and Giannulli, Honig said.
    — Mark Morales, CNN, 21 Aug. 2020
  • Bondi has not responded to emails from the Sentinel seeking comment or asking him to share the exculpatory material.
    — Annie Martin, The Orlando Sentinel, 10 Aug. 2025
  • Syed was freed from prison almost two years ago after a Baltimore judge ruled that the state had improperly withheld exculpatory evidence from his defense team.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 3 Sep. 2024
  • On the face of it, that statement sounded exculpatory, and giving this impression was clearly Fauci’s intention.
    — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • That testimony, which experts believe could have been exculpatory at trial, was never shared with the defense, according to one of the defense attorneys.
    — CBS News, 14 Feb. 2022
  • The Brady Rule requires prosecutors to turn over exculpatory evidence to the defense.
    — New York Times, 5 Mar. 2021
  • 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 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
  • After Reilly was convicted, and spent time in prison, the prosecutor discovered exculpatory evidence in his case file and all charges were dismissed.
    — Saul Kassin, Time, 16 Dec. 2022

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