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  • noun Plural form of exoneration.

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Examples

  • While Texas leads the nation in crime and punishment, it also has a significant number of exonerations, which is making some people in the state rethink their practices.

    Lynne Glasner: Trial and Error: Houston, We've Got a Problem 2009

  • While Texas leads the nation in crime and punishment, it also has a significant number of exonerations, which is making some people in the state rethink their practices.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Lynne Glasner 2009

  • It seems to me that many of the MSM's recent "exonerations" of the ClimateGate conspirators are an exercise in foot shooting - their own.

    Classical Values 2009

  • A few of the anti's brought up the Illinois experience, both the blanket clemency granted by outgoing Governor Homer Ryan in 2003 and the 'exonerations' claimed by the Northwestern project.

    American Thinker 2009

  • (The word 'exonerations' is in quotes because there is much to wonder about in those claims.

    American Thinker 2009

  • Until recently, that was largely the purview of the privately funded Innocence Project, which has been involved in 154 DNA exonerations in the USA since 1989, according the group's research director, Emily West.

    States look to right wrong convictions 2011

  • Until recently, that was largely the purview of the privately funded Innocence Project, which has been involved in 154 DNA exonerations in the USA since 1989, according the group's research director, Emily West.

    States look to right wrong convictions 2011

  • Twenty-eight percent of exonerations nationally have involved defendants who pleaded guilty, according to Saloom.

    States look to right wrong convictions 2011

  • But exonerations have rarely led to scrutiny of prosecutors, who enjoy broad immunity from civil suits and a measure of professional courtesy that discourages defense lawyers and judges from filing complaints that could lead to state bar investigations, attorneys said.

    Freed Convict Pushes Rare Probe of Prosecutors Nathan Koppel 2011

  • Twenty-eight percent of exonerations nationally have involved defendants who pleaded guilty, according to Saloom.

    States look to right wrong convictions 2011

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