Definition of Exculpatory. Meaning of Exculpatory. Synonyms of Exculpatory

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Definition of Exculpatory

Exculpatory
Exculpatory Ex*cul"pa*to*ry Clearing, or tending to clear, from alleged fault or guilt; excusing. ``An exculpatory letter.' --Johnson.

Meaning of Exculpatory from wikipedia

- Exculpatory evidence is evidence favorable to the defendant in a criminal trial that exonerates or tends to exonerate the defendant of guilt. It is the...
- contract, an exculpatory clause is a statement that aims to prevent one party from holding the other party liable for damages. An exculpatory clause is generally...
- evidence in its possession that suggests the defendant is not guilty (exculpatory evidence).: 4  On June 27, 1958, a 25-year-old Maryland man named John...
- the legal system of the United States, a Brady disclosure consists of exculpatory or impeaching information and evidence that is material to the guilt...
- "Mistakes were made" is an expression that is commonly used as a rhetorical device, whereby a speaker acknowledges that a situation was handled poorly...
- first to be exonerated, in 1989, following conviction on the basis of exculpatory DNA evidence. Debbie Dudley Davis, a 35-year-old account executive, was...
- (1992), was a U.S. Supreme Court case concerning the presentation of exculpatory evidence to a grand jury. It ruled that the federal courts do not have...
- case, primarily his conspiring with the DNA lab director to withhold exculpatory DNA evidence that could have acquitted the defendants. Nifong was born...
- (criminal or negligent homicide). Generally, there is a burden to produce exculpatory evidence in the legal defense of justification. In most countries, a...
- found that felons were entitled access to DNA testing on potentially exculpatory evidence, but this finding was later overturned by the Fourth Circuit...