"And absent any consequences to the extent that he perceives the acquittal as an exoneration, it's a fake exoneration," Jeffries argued.
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Where&aposs the report on James Comey issuing what writing exoneration after exoneration on Hillary Clinton in May before he even interviewed Hillary and 13 other key witnesses?
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Board voted against McKinney's exoneration A formal exoneration could open a pathway to $1 million in compensation from the state Board of Claims for the decades McKinney was wrongfully imprisoned.
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"No Collusion, No Obstruction, Complete and Total EXONERATION," he wrote.
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Because also, Peter Strzok was the one writing the exoneration.
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After his exoneration, he notified the city he would sue.
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The Congressman expects complete exoneration, as he is 100% innocent.
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" "Confirmation is not exoneration, and these newest revelations are disturbing.
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Only about a third were cases of exoneration after conviction.
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Was it confession I wanted or some kind of exoneration?
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Following Taylor's exoneration, they had a reunion before drifting apart.
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And you can be assured, Trump will proclaim full exoneration.
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There is no legal parsing of the definition of exoneration.
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And that is the greatest exoneration statement in all seven memos.
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No collusion, no obstruction, "Complete and Total EXONERATION," as he tweeted.
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Despite the exoneration, security experts have mixed feelings about the app.
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" That did not stop Trump from claiming "complete and total exoneration.
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The Innocence Project of New York is responsible for their exoneration.
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Interior spokeswoman Heather Swift framed the Thursday report as an exoneration.
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Second, few convictions based on false confessions are cleared by exoneration.
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" That did not stop Trump from claiming "complete and total exoneration.
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The report counts as the Worst Exoneration Ever, replete with incrimination.
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Tales of exoneration after wrongful imprisonment face some fundamental narrative challenges.
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It stood for a broader redemption, an exoneration from history itself.
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But due process and exoneration are not the majority leader's concern.
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Life after exoneration hasn't been without hurdles, Ryan Matthews told CNN.
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This was the longest incarceration before exoneration in United States history.
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"Confirmation is not exoneration, and these newest revelations are disturbing," Sen.
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No collusion, no obstruction: "Complete and Total EXONERATION", as he tweeted.
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Phillips' exoneration was due to evidence unearthed in an investigation by University of Michigan law students and the Wayne County prosecutor's office, making him the longest-serving inmate of the United States penal system to win exoneration.
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"Complete and Total EXONERATION," Trump tweeted after the summary was made public.
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Did you grant Trump "complete and total exoneration," as he has claimed?
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Trump tweeted that the report's conclusions were a "total exoneration" of him.
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Trump claimed the report was a "full exoneration" — but it was not.
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White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders also claimed "exoneration" on Sunday.
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But this isn't the exoneration that Trump and Republicans think it is.
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Republicans, however, have touted the findings to mean total exoneration for Trump.
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" The President immediately tweeted: "No Collusion, No Obstruction, Complete and Total EXONERATION.
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It took 85033 years to prove his innocence and secure his exoneration.
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Nevertheless, if it was not exoneration, it was to some degree vindication.
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The mass exoneration in the Watts cases is rare, but not unprecedented.
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Mr. Trump has sought to characterize Mr. Mueller's report as complete exoneration.
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Because then there would be either an exoneration or an absolute conviction.
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President Trump may claim "exoneration" on a narrowly defined criminal coordination charge.
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That's what's so bruising about Mr. Cosby's stab at extralegal self-exoneration.
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A pardon by Mr. Trump would amount to official forgiveness, not exoneration.
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"Confirmation is not exoneration, and these newest revelations are disturbing," Warren tweeted.
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That's because people don't often realize what fighting for exoneration looks like.
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Next week, Mosby is launching the Resurrection After Exoneration program in Baltimore.
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He's claimed "total exoneration," even though the full report is not out.
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But the allegation always gets 2628 times the play as the exoneration.
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"Confirmation is not exoneration, and these newest revelations are disturbing," Warren wrote.
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Phil Bredesen never acted on the board's recommendation against exoneration before leaving office.
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Why did you write an exoneration memo six weeks before she was interviewed?
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In the months following my exoneration, I suffered from depression, anger and confusion.
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Mueller writes that he would have cleared Trump if the evidence warranted exoneration.
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These stereotypes don't just aid in prosecution, but can also make exoneration harder.
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MacDonald's wife, Kathryn, has worked alongside Jeff's friends to advocate for his exoneration.
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None of that stopped the president and his defenders from immediately claiming exoneration.
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We believe this is the first step toward his eventual exoneration and vindication.
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Why would President Trump want to distract the public from this clear exoneration?
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Exoneration is not just a question of whether a president is a felon.
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Now, prosecutors have said they won't retry him -- leading to a full exoneration.
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No new indictments, no collusion, no obstruction charges, but no obstruction exoneration either.
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And, with every passing day where the exoneration letter -- is that a thing?
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The United States of the 1950s wasn't yet the land of premature exoneration.
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Roughly a quarter of Americans "offer the president full exoneration," the memo said.
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All of the men were represented by the Exoneration Project, the release states.
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He argued the President "has good reason to embark" on an exoneration tour.
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"Roger has a very good chance of exoneration in my opinion," Trump said.
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Stone has about the same chance of exoneration as he does of canonization.
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That Trump didn't get away with it is a relief, not an exoneration.
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The exoneration came after Michigan State Police decided last year to reinvestigate the case.
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An exoneration "makes everyone stop and pay attention and learn lessons", says Mr Gonzalez.
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Then you&aposve got Strzok and Page and, of course, Comey writes the exoneration.
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White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders says the summary is a complete exoneration of Trump.
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"That is a complete exoneration by the attorney general and Rod Rosenstein," Giuliani said.
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"No Collusion, No Obstruction, Complete and Total EXONERATION!" he wrote on Twitter on Sunday.
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The White House itself has undermined any other path to exoneration for the president.
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The trafficking-and-exoneration plot was compelling, but it only further muddied the waters.
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His new lawyer hopes new forensic testing and evidence could lead to his exoneration.
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But that's not quite the same thing as an exoneration rate of 22017 percent.
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To the Editor: Only Donald Trump could view the Mueller report as an exoneration.
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If the phenomenon is what is encouraging exoneration, then we should continue doing this.
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And hours after Mr. Stone was sentenced, the president called again for his exoneration.
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And his arrest record was still stamped with the word "murder" -- despite his exoneration.
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It is the evidence that will determine innocence or guilt and prosecution or exoneration.
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The only certainty is that Big Sugar will continue to fight for its exoneration.
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Independents break against exoneration -- 286% say the President and his campaign were not exonerated.
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Weighing against that evidence and the court's exoneration of them Trump has... what, exactly?
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Ware is one of four attorneys representing the women in their efforts to win exoneration.
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Since their exoneration in 2002, the men have spoke out about the ordeal they endured.
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When someone is found not guilty in court, that is usually taken as an exoneration.
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Any exoneration of Clinton, they said, would be tainted because Lynch was an Obama appointee.
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" If you listen to the track, you'll see Trump's "NO COLLUSION, NO OBSTRUCTION, TOTAL EXONERATION.
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The day I learned of the exoneration was worse than the day I was assaulted.
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Mr. Goldman had just given Mr. Trump something that looked like a Facebook-stamped exoneration.
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"No Collusion, No Obstruction, Complete and Total EXONERATION," Mr. Trump wrote on Twitter that day.
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He's made himself radioactive — absent a credible, independent exoneration for Jamal's disappearance and apparent murder.
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Presumably it's because he knows the Republican Senate will acquit him and he'll claim exoneration.
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And then people that love the president are saying everything is an example of exoneration.
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Read: We Asked an Exoneration Expert About 'Making a Murderer' and America's True Crime Obsession
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" Trump tweeted Sunday that the summary found "No Collusion, No Obstruction, Complete and Total EXONERATION.
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Three days later she was exonerated, but he had been building the exoneration case since May.
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The show has stoked strong feelings about how they were mistreated, subsequent struggles and eventual exoneration.
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" Soon after Barr's letter became public, Trump tweeted: "No Collusion, No Obstruction, Complete and Total EXONERATION.
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Both Schmack and the Exoneration Project have raised the specter of possible police and prosecutorial misconduct.
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Mueller's statement of non-exoneration also will have political consequences, including renewed investigations by House Democrats.
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Since 2007, the Innocence Commission has led to the exoneration of 12 former prisoners, including Blackmon.
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" Why this is newsy: Trump has insisted for months that Mueller's report was a "total exoneration.
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As is her boss, in characteristically blunter fashion: No Collusion, No Obstruction, Complete and Total EXONERATION.
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He incorrectly declared a "total exoneration" when Mr. Barr delivered the bottom-line conclusions last month.
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Democrats have yearned for a moment of political exoneration ever since Hillary Clinton's defeat in 2016.
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He has been litigating for decades and now simply wants to win exoneration before he dies.
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For the Senate trial, he is looking for some flashiness but also a sense of exoneration.
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At the time, they called it a "just disposition and appropriate resolution," but not an exoneration.
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D.N.A.-exoneration cases have exposed deep flaws in the criminal justice system's use of forensic science.
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Clemency is important in part because the legal process for exoneration is so cumbersome and slow.
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Accordingly, the current wave in true crime often deals with the exoneration of the wrongfully convicted.
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"That's exoneration by Rod Rosenstein, the attorney general and the Office of Legal Counsel," Giuliani said.
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Despite her definitive exoneration by the highest court in Italy, people still have questions about Knox.
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The month before that, Vanessa Gathers was exoneration No. 18 for the unit, cleared of manslaughter charges.
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The series begins where most stories of its kind can only hope to end: with an exoneration.
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"The day I learned of the exoneration was worse than the day I was assaulted," Beerntsen writes.
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Avery's new attorney, Kathleen Zellner, sounds optimistic about her client's future in the wake of Dassey's exoneration.
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SPICER: Just to be clear -- HANNITY: They fix the investigation they wrote an exoneration before the investigation.
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That's all aimed at disqualifying Mueller's findings if they offer something short of full exoneration for Trump.
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I saw a therapist after the assault, and then after the exoneration, I saw a therapist again.
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They did not live to see his exoneration, and he was not allowed to attend their funerals.
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He has also claimed "total exoneration" from Mueller, a word that is not used in the report.
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In this case, he wanted public exoneration on the collusion issue before the investigation was even finished.
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He received a life sentence and served 20183,583 days in prison before his exoneration in October 2017.
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But what if the exoneration didn't require a scientific breakthrough, just a clearheaded look at the evidence?
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"It was a complete and total exoneration," Trump said Sunday before boarding Air Force One for Washington.
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"Hopefully somebody is going to be looking at the other side ... complete exoneration, no collusion," Trump said.
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The news of his exoneration puts Dustin and his cousins, who also lost their parents, on edge.
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In 2010, Garry contacted two lawyers at the Exoneration Initiative, a Manhattan nonprofit that handles wrongful convictions.
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Exoneration or no, for Mr. Smollett, who maintained his innocence, the outcome could hardly have been better.
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Barr pushed back on accusations that he had helped Trump claim "total exoneration" after the Mueller investigation ended.
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The series underscores their exoneration in 2002, followed by the 2014 settlement they negotiated with New York City.
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James Comey laid them out two days after they interviewed but they were writing the exoneration months before.
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"No Collusion, No Obstruction, Complete and Total EXONERATION," Trump tweeted, even though he was not exonerated by Mueller.
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Individuals justified the opposite approach with a similar logic—anything short of total exoneration would end their careers.
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Even years after her shocking exoneration in 2011, Anthony's name still evokes an emotional response from many people.
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Trump and Republicans have claimed that the outcome of the investigation offers a total exoneration of the president.
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Avery's new attorney, Kathleen Zellner, sounds optimistic about her client's future in the wake of Brenden Dassey's exoneration.
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Exoneration doesn't change the fact that he's a 42-year-old with less than two years' work history.
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It is little wonder that Louisiana has the nation's highest rates of incarceration and exoneration for wrongful convictions.
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New evidence often changes the course of an investigation, sometimes leading to the exoneration, sometimes leading to incarceration.
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Trump and his allies have celebrated Barr's finding of Mueller's report as a total "exoneration" of the president.
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It was included in The Exoneration Project's filing, with McCullough's lawyers picking up where the prosecutor left off.
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They appear to be unimpressed with the blanket exoneration, though they say Mr Najib is not a suspect.
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Junichiro Hironaka also told a news briefing that he would not accept anything less than exoneration for Ghosn.
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DuVernay's series will begin in the spring of 1989 and follow the story until the exoneration, Netflix said.
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No matter what kind of lawyer a person hires, seeking exoneration, this season shows, requires nearly superhuman stamina.
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The exoneration effort needed to be centralized, so that someone would become responsible for finding the defendants themselves.
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But he said that even an exoneration, as welcome as it is, would not entirely end his ordeal.
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But new DNA evidence helped overturn the ruling, and Rusty's exoneration stirs up long-repressed guilt and fear.
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"It was a complete and total exoneration," Mr. Trump told reporters in Florida before boarding Air Force One.
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What this outcome is not, however, is a "Complete and Total EXONERATION," as Mr. Trump unsurprisingly spun it.
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" Naturally, the president and his allies are claiming, as one of Trump's tweets said, "Complete and Total EXONERATION.
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Researchers find that an exoneration is 213 times more likely for a death sentence than for other sentences.
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Freedom in both instances is dangled as a carrot to entice the defendant to give up on exoneration.
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"Roger has a very good chance of exoneration in my opinion," Trump said at the prisoner reentry event.
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How else can he justify his tweets of "total exoneration," as he did after the special counsel investigation?
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Meanwhile, innocent suspects may be imprisoned in their place, with only DNA analysis standing between them and exoneration.
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If this is what a complete and total exoneration looks like, I'd hate to see a damning report.
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What about -- Kim focused on the parts close to the election, but really this is going to go back, we hope, to before the exoneration, that public exoneration that Comey offered, to get to some of the inconsistencies we already know about because, for example, the Peter Strzok e-mail.
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His last chance While he and his team are optimistic, McKinney knows this is his final opportunity for exoneration.
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The key thing to remember here: Not bringing charges is not the same thing as innocence or exoneration. 9.
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HANNITY: Let me -- one of the reasons we know everything is remember, they started writing the exoneration of Hillary.
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Their prosecution and eventual exoneration will be chronicled in the upcoming Ana DuVernay Netflix series, When They See Us.
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In addition, Exoneration Project lawyers took aim at the photo lineup at the heart of the case against McCullough.
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The exoneration by the Supreme People's Court followed a second re-examination of the case, that began in June.
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That is the truth at the heart of any successful exoneration case: The freedom, once obtained, isn't really free.
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Special counsel Robert Mueller released his report Thursday — and it's nowhere near the "total exoneration" President Donald Trump claims.
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In an announcement that year, the Denver district attorney's office insisted that the case was not a DNA exoneration.
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Tepfer invited many of them to the Exoneration Project, in a converted loft building in Chicago's gentrified West Loop.
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That way, they can give Trump the full exoneration his lawyers have been promising him since the probe began.
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" So the Mueller report is now, in the official White House version, "total exoneration," except when it's "total bullshit.
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This led to her exoneration and the crime being linked to Halbower, who is serving time for two murders.
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"But look — if they're successful in depriving the country of a fair trial, there is no exoneration," he added.
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"That all I really want for my birthday is full and total exoneration for the president by week's end."
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He also wants to use the report of Nomura's internal investigation to show his lack of involvement and exoneration.
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In January, Portnow released a statement claiming that the allegation received a full independent investigation, resulting in his exoneration.
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"We don't want a quick technical acquittal but complete exoneration," said an outside adviser who speaks to the president.
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She has started Resurrection After Exoneration, which will offer medical help and guidance as exonerated people reintegrate to society.
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This year, the technique passed its first legal test and secured both its first conviction and its first exoneration.
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" The president's reaction is a bit more muted than his usual "No Collusion, No Obstruction, Complete and Total EXONERATION.
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It's a blow to President Trump, who has repeatedly mischaracterized the more than 400-page report as an exoneration.
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The section of the report focusing on Russian interference in the election is not an exoneration of Trump's innocence.
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The Innocence Project estimates that faulty forensic science was involved in more than 40 percent of DNA exoneration cases.
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" Trump ignored that line in his assessment of the report's findings, tweeting: "No Collusion, No Obstruction, Complete and Total EXONERATION.
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HANNITY: So we&aposre going see a Peter Strzok memo, the guy who wrote the exoneration to Hillary-- JARRETT: Right.
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Darryl consistently professed his innocence, even refusing a plea that would have set him free years before his 2004 exoneration.
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And Comey, Strzok and others put the fix in and wrote her exoneration months before they ever did their investigation.
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" Trump, who has repeatedly called the Mueller probe a "witch hunt," quickly hailed the announcement as "complete and total exoneration.
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The Wisconsin Innocence Project ceased to trumpet its role in Avery's early exoneration; his name was removed from their website.
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And exoneration efforts focus on serious crimes, where sentences are long and there is more likely to be forensic evidence.
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Despite the takeaway that Mueller rejected Trump's claim of exoneration, Team Trump savored the former special counsel's halting, faltering performance.
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For his part, Trump has alternately dismissed Mueller's work as a "witch hunt" and as a "total exoneration" of him.
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Now, we also know that Comey and Trump hater Peter Strzok started writing her exoneration in early May of 2016.
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DNA evidence corroborated this and led to the exoneration of the Central Park Five, who wasted their youth in jail.
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It is simply a whodunit that recognizes that in real life "exoneration" cases, the whodunit is often beside the point.
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Although the Cook County State Attorney's Office insisted their decision wasn't an exoneration, Jussie doubled down and maintained his innocence.
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" The White House also said the results are a "total and complete exoneration of the president of the United States.
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It tells the story of two brothers falsely convicted of murder, tracing the detective work that lead to their exoneration.
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A video by Pear Video, a news service, showed him wailing when he heard of his son's exoneration on Friday.
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All five had their convictions vacated after serving full sentences due to DNA exoneration and a confession by the perpetrator.
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For Walter Lomax, who was freed from a Maryland prison in 2014, it took 46 years to secure an exoneration.
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For defenders of Kristeva's reputation, this may lead to the most convincing argument for her exoneration in the public eye.
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With witnesses in the trial, the claims of exoneration by the president will find little credible resistance in the public.
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His prosecution had failed, but justice had been done, and this exoneration pleased him just as much as his successes.
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" To anybody but a dyed-in-the-wool Trump partisan, those conclusions are the opposite of "total and complete exoneration.
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To my mind, the White House transcript of that call reads more like a smoking gun than an exoneration. 8.
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The exoneration of Dugas should serve as a warning of the risks of overinvesting in the myth of Patient Zero.
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A potential wrench was thrown into Mueller's testimony on Sunday by Trump, who has claimed "total exoneration" from the Mueller report.
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How could you write a statement of exoneration two months before you interviewed 17 key witnesses including the target Hillary Clinton?
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The film depicts a five-year legal battle for exoneration, highlighting the burden of proof of innocence was on the accused.
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But the president is sure to trumpet his exoneration in a public appearance at the White House set for noon Thursday.
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He broke longstanding department policy literally writing the exoneration of Hillary Clinton before ever interviewing her or 218 other key witnesses.
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Such proceedings would paralyze an already crippled presidency and in all probability, would end in the complete exoneration of James Comey.
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But the FBI director also doesn't normally slag people with negative commentary in press conferences nominally dedicated to announcing their exoneration.
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Trump haters may not get the impeachment or resignation they crave and Trump supporters may not get the exoneration they want.
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Months after forensic evidence led to the exoneration and release of two death row prisoners in 2014, Mr. Britt was unbowed.
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And if the president is serious about all his claims of exoneration, then he should welcome the publication of the report.
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A partial exoneration is that Staley's witch hunts were undertaken because he didn't appear to understand whistleblowers' right to be protected.
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"We think it's a complete exoneration of the President," President Trump's personal attorney @RudyGiuliani says on @CNN about the Mueller report.
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This isn't an exoneration of the president; it's suggesting he had criminal intent but was too incompetent to act on it.
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While Mr. Trump claimed that Mr. Mueller's findings were "a complete and total exoneration," Mr. Mueller explicitly said they were not.
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President Trump's supporters can call it an exoneration, but his opponents may well view it as a road map for impeachment.
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Under state law, I was able to petition the court for a certificate of innocence—an official recognition of my exoneration.
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In a statement to NBC, White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham hailed the outcome as a "full vindication and exoneration" for Trump.
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" Asked at the news conference about his expectations for Syed's ultimate exoneration and release, Brown said, "I'm feeling pretty confident right now.
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It was a sharp turn away from his earlier statements, which welcomed the report's findings on collusion and falsely claimed total exoneration.
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But both Avery and Dassey are still looking for exoneration, and there are two teams of lawyers looking to get that done.
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She got a get out of jail free card from her friends who wrote an exoneration before investigation, Comey, Strzok, and others.
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If not for pure luck and chance, none of us would have been alive to see our exoneration nearly 40 years later.
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On the one hand, the appointment of a special counsel gives Trump and his campaign a chance at real and full exoneration.
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President Donald Trump has gone from "Total EXONERATION" to "total bullshit" on special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation in less than a month.
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A judge assigned his case to the state appellate defender's office, and a lawyer there eventually referred it to the Exoneration Project.
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She has said she hopes new forensic testing and evidence would lead to his exoneration, or at least to a new trial.
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Attorney General William Barr's summary of the Mueller report was far from a "total exoneration," as Trump and his loyalists have proclaimed.
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Puma's post-trial press release, titled "Puma Biotechnology Announces Litigation Victory," touted the company's exoneration on three of the four alleged misstatements.
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The exoneration on the central question of the investigation has to be taken seriously given the resources Mueller brought to the task.
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In 2010, the Exoneration Initiative, a nonprofit that provides legal representation to convicts that it believes are innocent, began representing Mr. Rosario.
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Another exoneration of a man who had been executed years before came in 2014, in Inner Mongolia, a region of northern China.
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Analysis: Although Mr. Trump claimed that Mr. Mueller's findings were "a complete and total exoneration," Mr. Mueller explicitly said they were not.
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Since 8550, 2000 people have exonerated, according to a database maintained by the center, for an exoneration rate of about 21 percent.
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Because of the documentary's clear bias in favor of Knox's exoneration, die-hards convinced of Knox's guilt may find its omissions frustrating.
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Mr. Annan said he took the commission's findings as exoneration, but his reputation suffered, particularly in the eyes of adversaries in Washington.
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Over the years, he has proclaimed people guilty or not guilty before trial, or immediately deserving of the death penalty or exoneration.
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In short, the Mueller "exoneration," as Trump has referred to it, had become part of the motive for the Ukrainian shake down.
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But what concerned him was that with acquittals came a tendency to view sympathetic justice solely through the prism of legal exoneration.
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With a Senate acquittal, get ready for the Trump impeachment exoneration tour -- a tour that will likely only benefit his reelection prospects.
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"Today, the sham impeachment attempt concocted by Democrats ended in the full vindication and exoneration of President Donald J. Trump," Grisham said.
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Barr declined, and took another three weeks to redact the full report, allowing Trump's claim of "total exoneration" to dominate the news.
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"I want to see it play out to its fullest, because Roger has a very good chance of exoneration," the president said.
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McMillan, a domestic violence advocate and friend of Reed, explained that she hoped the stay of execution would lead to full exoneration.
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As such, Barr delivers a decisive exoneration of Trump and the administration on the question of criminal conspiracy or coordination with Russia.
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Of course, Republicans responded by arguing that Democrats had clearly failed to make a bribery case — and by trumpeting Trump's supposed exoneration.
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At least nine have been operating for three or more years without a single exoneration, according to data from the exonerations registry.
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After the exoneration hearing in Austin, Perry echoed Judge Baird's ruling and granted Tim Cole the first posthumous pardon in Texas history.
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And if the president is serious about all of his claims of exoneration, then he should welcome the publication of this report.
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He played a lead role in writing Hillary Clinton&aposs exoneration, of course, before the investigation, before ultimately conducting her investigation months later.
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He wrote an exoneration with, of course the FBI Director Comey in early May and they didn&apost interview her until July 2nd.
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The corporate exoneration of Mimms and the CVS anti-disparagement policy, he said, showed reckless disregard by the employees who allegedly defamed Mimms.
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After his exoneration, the school board voted unanimously to reinstate him in 2015, along with nearly a full year's worth of back pay.
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During that May briefing, Mueller pushed back on what Trump had been calling his "complete and total exoneration" after the report was released.
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Chris wholly denies all of the allegations, and says he looks forward to a full exoneration and intends to reconcile with his daughter.
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Kratz says that, despite the social media hate and general calls for Avery's exoneration, Making a Murderer has changed things for the better.
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" Asked why Trump claimed total exoneration when Barr's letter was ambiguous on the question of obstruction, Gidley said "prosecutors don't exonerate, they prosecute.
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Strzok's involvement with the Clinton investigation, including his reported role in drafting the Clinton exoneration letter, has further escalated the scrutiny against him.
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The books can be seen as a veiled confession and attempt at self-exoneration, an examination of the possibility and limits of atonement.
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Paired with publicly-available police misconduct and exoneration data, we hope that these letters will unearth clusters of wrongful conviction cases for investigation.
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Following her exoneration last month, Hernandez used her newfound international platform to call for an end to the criminalization of women like her.
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For weeks, he's been repeating "no collusion and no obstruction" like it's a mantra, with the word "exoneration" sprinkled in here and there.
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He did not hesitate, for example, to frame Robert Mueller's findings as an exoneration of the president, despite a report that said otherwise.
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And for the F.B.I., the acquittal was a rare public exoneration in face of relentless attacks by President Trump and his conservative allies.
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The 6-3 ruling holds that a Kansas law preventing the exoneration of defendants who claim a diminished mental state is not unconstitutional.
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"They were able to claim in large part exoneration and make the case that Democrats had been overreaching on those allegations," Nunziata said.
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Amid President Donald Trump's years-long quest to undermine the Russia investigation and claim "total exoneration," a tale of two lawyers has emerged.
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Before he could get the $3003 million payout -- the maximum allowed under Tennessee law -- he needed a formal exoneration from the governor's office.
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An exoneration by Mr. Mueller would be much likelier to be accepted by independents and even Democrats than any denial by Mr. Trump.
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If the president has nothing to fear from a Russia investigation, then why not let it run its course toward exoneration or irrelevance?
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A year later, after a similar motion was filed on John Bunn's behalf by the Exoneration Initiative, his own day in court came.
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After questions arose about evidence in the case and calls for Reed's exoneration grew more intense, a Texas appeals court halted his execution.
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Coulda told you that two and a half years ago very easily," Trump said, calling the report's findings "total exoneration" and "complete vindication.
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He&aposs the guy that interviewed Hillary two days before they exonerated her, but they were writing the exoneration in May, this was July.
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Since his exoneration in 2006, he worked as a motivational speaker, helped register Mississippi residents to vote and visited schools talking about his experience.
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What happens to her and what happens to the people that were involved in the exoneration before the investigation to impact the presidential election.
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One was himself jailed for almost 18 years for murders he did not commit; the other played a role in securing his friend's exoneration.
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As high as these exoneration numbers are, they still understate the scope of the problem, since not all cases involving misconduct come to light.
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"This law calls for the exoneration of tyrants in the home," says Maria Mokhova, executive director of the "Sisters" crisis center for abuse victims.
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Even a complete and total exoneration by Mueller on the Russia question would represent only a tiny ray of legal sunshine for the president.
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Trump viewed the report as an exoneration because the special counsel did not charge him with conspiring with Russia or with obstruction of justice.
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"Curt is innocent, and is going to prove it," attorney Jon Loevy, who is working with the University of Chicago Exoneration Project, tells PEOPLE.
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The documentary has prompted public outrage and calls for Avery's exoneration, including online petitions to Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker with more than 300,000 signatures.
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Walker, a former Republican presidential candidate, said last week that he was not swayed by the online petitions for Avery's exoneration at the Change.
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The death row inmate's son, Marcellus Williams II, expressed joy at the stay and said he hopes it will lead to his father's exoneration.
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Trump celebrated the report as "total exoneration," but Democrats question Mueller's lack of a conclusion on whether the president obstructed justice in the probe.
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Success or exoneration in that scenario would likely still require her to be treated at a psychiatric facility for a considerable amount of time.
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Elizabeth Warren tweeted that "confirmation is not exoneration," and "like the man who appointed him, Kavanaugh should be impeached," she wrote, referring to Sens.
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While Trump has described these conclusions as "total exoneration," most believe the measure of presidential conduct is not found exclusively in the criminal code.
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A clear exoneration of Ellison would make for a happy ending to the story, but it's possible this could evolve into an ugly situation.
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He said he and the President had never discussed a letter of exoneration and said he had "no idea" where Trump got the idea.
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Trump says the report was a complete exoneration from what he called a witch hunt mounted by Democrats frustrated by his 2016 election victory.
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A year before Rea's exoneration, the National Academy of Sciences had released a report that called into doubt the reliability of bloodstain-pattern analysis.
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Mr. Trump has seized on Mr. Mueller's finding that his campaign did not coordinate with Russia to declare that the investigation was an exoneration.
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This house was exempted from property taxes for 20 years, with 13 left, according to Mr. Gangi, as part of Panama's tax exoneration program.
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The Exoneration Project, a free legal clinic at the University of Chicago Law School, says many more are waiting to have their cases heard.
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What Democrats want to avoid is a process that gives the President a virtual exoneration on all charges if it's a party-line vote.
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"This law calls for the exoneration of tyrants in the home," said Maria Mokhova, Executive Director of the "Sisters" crisis center for abuse victims.
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He then tempered this exoneration with a series of devastating criticisms of the cavalier way classified documents were handled by the Clinton and her staff.
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"This exoneration is an important step toward keeping the refinery operative, and also to attract new partners for the refinery's future," the government's statement said.
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Trump has asserted that the report was a "hoax" and a "witch hunt" that nevertheless served as a "complete and total exoneration" of any wrongdoing.
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In court papers, the Exoneration Project rips the case apart -- including the timeline of events, an eyewitness identification and the testimony of three jailhouse informants.
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So the news about the blocked calls is a significant bit of new information — but hardly a definitive exoneration of the president and his son.
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CFC companies will be taxed 15% both on their local and export activities as of 2021 after a five-year tax exoneration, the minister said.
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"The findings of the Department of Justice are a total and complete exoneration of the President of the United States," Sanders said in a statement.
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Trump and his allies have seized on Barr's initial findings to declare "total exoneration," downplaying concerns that Mueller's full report will contain more damaging information.
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Mr. Avery's new lawyer has said she hoped new forensic testing and evidence could lead to his exoneration, or at least to a new trial.
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When "Making a Murderer" aired in 2016, it sparked outrage over the treatment of the two Wisconsin men and led some to support their exoneration.
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By doing this he effectively rebutted the exoneration fiction asserted by President Trump and the misleading characterization of his work by Attorney General William Barr.
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In fact, the numbers I know tell me that one in nine people who have been prosecuted under the death penalty led to an exoneration.
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The exoneration followed a collaborative investigation started in 2016 by the Innocence Project and the Bronx district attorney's Conviction Integrity Unit, led by Gina Mignola.
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The charade will then move to the Senate, where it will end with a failure to convict and an exoneration for Trump as it should.
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If the evidence on Bayoumi and Thumairy was so clearly contradictory and incomplete, the agents wondered, why had it been distilled into a virtual exoneration?
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She hosts a true crime podcast and even returned to Italy in June for the first time since her exoneration to speak about wrongful convictions.
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Many of the convictions stemmed from Watts and his team of officers framing, planting drugs, or falsely arresting the victims, according to the Exoneration Project.
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Trulove's story of wrongful conviction and eventual exoneration has been told before; he even won a $13.1 million payout from the city of San Francisco.
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"I want to see it play out to its fullest because Roger has a very good chance of exoneration in my opinion," the president said.
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A scientist refutes the initial DNA analysis, and an exoneration follows A DNA scientist from Boise State University, Greg Hampikian, had been monitoring the case.
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But Daschle's loyalty extended only so far: when the Senate refused to remove Clinton, Daschle described the result as no exoneration of the President's behavior.
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On Unlocking the Truth, Ferguson and Eva Nagao team up with the University of Chicago Law School's Exoneration Project to investigate three claims of false imprisonment.
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The episodes chronicle their time as teenagers on the night of the arrest through their trial, prison sentence, exoneration, and the difficulties in rejoining the world.
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HANNITY: Yes, well, and on top of that they -- they were writing an exoneration of Hillary before they investigated, but let&aposs go back to this.
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The first season of Serial followed journalist Koenig as she did a deep dive into Syed's past, and the evidence that could lead to his exoneration.
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Running back DeAngelo Williams posted a video to Twitter, celebrating Harrison's "exoneration" and relayed his incredulity over the NFL looking into Harrison's alleged use of PEDs.
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The registry defines an exoneration as a case in which someone convicted of a crime is cleared of all charges based on new evidence of innocence.
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In 1999, 11 years later, DNA testing allowed the exoneration of Williamson and Fritz with the help of the non-profit legal organization the Innocence Project.
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Republicans claim vindication for the President Some Republican allies of the President in Congress immediately seized upon the attorney general's initial announcement to claim exoneration. Rep.
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" That represented a dramatic reversal from a month earlier, when he trumpeted Attorney General Bill Barr's misleading summary of Mueller's bottom-line conclusions as "Total EXONERATION.
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Curtis had the support of a new defense team at his second trial, backed this time by the resources of the University of Chicago Exoneration Project.
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While Mueller's investigation pointedly states it was unable to conclude "no criminal conduct occurred," the President has branded the report as a "total exoneration" of wrongdoing.
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Such reports allow for public accountability for misconduct that is not criminal, for exoneration of officials who did nothing wrong, and for oversight and lesson-learning.
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Trump described Barr's letter as "total exoneration" in a brief tweet Sunday evening, roughly an hour after it was released by Congress and the Justice Department.
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Attorney General Bill Barr and the White House, meanwhile, have gone to great lengths to spin the Mueller report as an exoneration of a wronged president.
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Americans have every right to review that report and gauge not just the alleged crimes but the conduct of the president before "exoneration" can be claimed.
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Comey drafted the Crooked Hillary exoneration long before he talked to her (lied in Congress to Senator G), then based his decisions on her poll numbers.
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Meanwhile, the president boasted that he had received "a complete and total exoneration" when he spoke to reporters briefly before boarding Air Force One in Florida.
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We can probe not only these exoneration cases for known bad actors, but also the cases of those still incarcerated for crimes they did not commit.
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It also should be clear that a proper reading of the Mueller report does not offer the "exoneration" President Trump and Attorney General Barr have claimed.
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Mr. Colbert didn't let Mr. Bush — who seemed to be egging Mr. Trump on during parts of the tape — get away with an easy self-exoneration.
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Trump has trumpeted the results of Mueller's 22-month probe as evidence of "total exoneration" of him, even though the special counsel did not say that.
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Still, the shameless denials of complicity in Mr. Khashoggi's death and Mr. Trump's callous exoneration of the prince would appear to make for a sad anniversary.
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Several Republican lawmakers involved in the dispute said Gowdy's remarks have been overblown to suggest a complete exoneration of the FBI's conduct during the 2016 campaign.
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Though the President still faces multiple criminal and civil investigations into his inauguration, transition, and personal and business affairs, exoneration by Mueller would be hugely significant.
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The result of the impeachment, by contrast, will be a series of Trump campaign exoneration rallies as he travels the country hammering Democrats for their overreach.
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Strzok served as the No. 2 in the Clinton investigation, and his reported role in drafting the Clinton exoneration letter ignited an explosion of GOP scrutiny.
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There are 24 district attorney offices nationwide with offices to review convictions, with Brooklyn also among the exoneration leaders in the past several years, the study said.
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And, of course, there&aposs that exoneration memo that was drafted, written, revised by the entire investigation team before 17 important witnesses, including Hillary Clinton, wherever interviewed.
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Willis was convicted of murder and armed robbery in 1997 and sentenced to life in prison plus 90 years, according to the Life After Exoneration Program (LAEP).
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Still, public prosecutors accepted Cristina's argument that she had not been privy to the transactions made by these companies, and they also demanded her exoneration on Monday.
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You'll recall Cook County prosecutors dropped all 16 felony counts against Smollett in March 2019 ... calling it a "just disposition and appropriate resolution," but not an exoneration.
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And after a judge ordered a special prosecutor to look into the case last month, Heidelberg is closer than ever to what would be an historic exoneration.
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But she holds no illusions about what exoneration would mean for a 73-year-old man who's spent more time behind bars than in the outside world.
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"IT WAS a complete and total exoneration!" crowed Donald Trump on March 24th, shortly after his attorney-general released a four-page summary of Robert Mueller's findings.
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After Barr released his four-page letter, Trump claimed "complete and total exoneration," condemned "an illegal takedown that failed" and accused unnamed political enemies of treasonous acts.
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At that July, 13 news conference, Comey called the then-presidential candidate&aposs actions "extremely careless," rather than "grossly negligent," as drafted in the initial exoneration statement.
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Trump quickly claimed "complete and total exoneration" on Sunday, while his campaign turned its attention to a strong economy as it pushes toward a pivotal 2020 election.
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Whether it's a rap song or a failed quest for a presidential pardon, Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey have become overnight superstars in the fight for exoneration.
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"The findings of the Department of Justice are a total and complete exoneration of the President of the United States," White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders tweeted.
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After Attorney General Bill Barr summarized the report's findings in April, Trump claimed that Mueller's inquiry had amounted to a "total exoneration" of himself and his conduct.
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All the men had served their sentences for the crimes in question, according to the Exoneration Project: 14 are free, and one remains incarcerated on unrelated charges.
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"There's a fail-safe in there, and it's called the defense lawyer," says Rick Werstein, the attorney now representing Albritton as she seeks to finalize her exoneration.
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That speaks volumes about his colleagues, who have largely echoed the president's up-is-down refrain that the report's damning findings are a "total exoneration" of him.
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But, who the hell is this guy, and why did it take the exoneration of two wrongfully convicted men for the police to look into him seriously?
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However, if Trump is innocent of any wrongdoing as he has repeatedly claimed, he can survive the investigation and even thrive in the wake of his exoneration.
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"Prosecutors don't usually talk in terms of exoneration," Zeldin said, suggesting this could point to disagreements between Mueller's team and top figures at the Department of Justice.
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Mr. Lieu said House Democrats would reject the premise that Mr. Mueller's clearing Mr. Trump of personal coordination with the Russians would amount to any broader exoneration.
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The murder of British student Meredith Kercher and its subsequent investigation is certainly complicated, but Knox's eventual exoneration last year provided a clear ending to the story.
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"Whatever Trump may have thought when he claimed total exoneration two weeks ago, subsequent events strongly suggest that claim will fall flat on its face," he said.
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" David Harsanyi, a senior editor at The Federalist, agreed, arguing in The New York Post that journalists should "be focusing on exoneration rather than theorizing about obstruction.
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"It seems to me, if there's not a full, fair trial with witnesses, he may get an acquittal, but he's not going to get an exoneration," Rep.
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Despite his exoneration—and the robust support of both the biggest shareholder and the chairman, Urs Rohner—the slightly farcical affair is a blow to Mr Thiam.
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But the president is almost certain to cast his likely acquittal as a complete exoneration and turn the considerable apparatus of his campaign to stoke public outrage.
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Because Mueller did not conclude he had conspired with the Russian government, Trump said the report's findings amounted to "total exoneration," which became the leading public narrative.
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Democrats expect Trump to claim "complete and total exoneration" if and when he gets off in the Senate trial, like he did when the Mueller report dropped.
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But Gaetz said his panel has evidence the FBI took actions while writing the exoneration statement that required Justice input, such as immunizing witnesses in June 2016.
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If the Trump team is innocent and expects exoneration, why would it work so hard on a secret effort aimed at discrediting Mueller, as The Times reported?
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Occurring in 46% of DNA exoneration cases, the improper use of forensic science is the second most common reason for wrongful convictions, according to the Innocence Project.
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That exoneration, that change in language, actually appears to be the insurance policy that Peter Strzok was talking about with Lisa Page, his paramour, in those text messages.
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But do I understand how human beings might be tempted to plant evidence under the circumstances in which the Manitowoc County Sheriff's Department found itself after Steven's exoneration?...
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O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story, it's lawyers and law enforcement – not the charismatic football player known as "Juice" whose exoneration divided a nation – who are truly on trial.
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Speaking to reporters outside the White House on Tuesday, Trump refused to acknowledge the exoneration of the men when asked if he would apologize for his past statements.
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The president declared it a "total exoneration," and a White House spokesman told reporters on March 24 that Trump was "in a really good mood" over Mueller's findings.
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Trump, though, claimed "complete and total exoneration" in the investigation, talking to reporters before boarding Air Force One on his way back to Washington from West Palm Beach.
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"It took more than two decades for Keith to finally get his name back," said Elliot Slosar, staff attorney with the Exoneration Project at the University of Chicago.
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Attorneys with The Exoneration Project have filed court papers seeking a certificate of innocence for Jack Daniel McCullough, a 76-year-old military veteran and former police officer.
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President Donald Trump claimed "complete and total exoneration " on Sunday after Attorney General William Barr released a summary of special counsel Robert Mueller's report on his Russia investigation.
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A founder of the nonprofit Investigating Innocence, based in Springfield, then offered his family assistance, and last spring the University of Chicago Exoneration project agreed to represent him.
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Netflix's new series primarily focuses on what happened after Avery's exoneration: two years after he was released, Avery was charged with the murder of another woman, Teresa Halbach.
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Comey prepared the draft exoneration for Clinton before conducting interviews with top Clinton aides who were offered immunity for their cooperation, Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley and Sen.
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Exxon Mobil provided a letter from the SEC Friday saying that the investigation had been closed with no action, but that such a notification was not an exoneration.
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Trump should collect on that exoneration debt by asking Kim — who, he said, "felt very badly about it" — to issue his own honest statement of responsibility and regret.
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" Trump's 87-second statement, which he delivered on the tarmac of Palm Beach International Airport, came minutes after he tweeted: "No Collusion, No Obstruction, Complete and Total EXONERATION.
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In a separate federal criminal case filed that day, Ben's friend Jamar Lewis, who had been part of the mass exoneration, was charged with conspiracy to distribute heroin.
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Strzok served as the FBI's No. 2 official in the Clinton investigation, and his reported role in drafting the Clinton exoneration letter ignited an explosion of GOP scrutiny.
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"Comey drafted the Crooked Hillary exoneration long before he talked to her (lied in Congress to Senator G), then based his decisions on her poll numbers," he tweeted.
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But even with President Obama in office for nearly eight years, and Senator John McCain and Congressman Peter King lobbying for a pardon, exoneration has yet to come.
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Three sources familiar with the President's recent conversations about the investigation said Trump has become convinced that he will receive a letter of exoneration, which would be unusual.
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Unfortunately, there's plenty of evidence that the president can't be taken at his word when he says that the report is a "complete and total exoneration" of wrongdoing.
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"It was a complete and total exoneration," Mr. Trump said, in brief remarks to reporters in Florida before he boarded Air Force One en route back to Washington.
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But on the day that the moment finally arrived, the president refused to budge from his initial assessment that the report was a total exoneration of his actions.
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She was referring to Comey's exoneration of Hillary Clinton in the email caper, and his admission that he had leaked his own private memo describing conversations with Trump.
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However, when Manafort was awoken by a FBI search team in his bedroom recently, it seemed doubtful that a draft letter of exoneration is sitting in Mueller's computer.
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That leaves so-called exoneration hearings — or occasionally, court papers — as the only public forums in which prosecutors are required to give their version of what went wrong.
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Make no mistake, this acquittal will be seen by many of our citizens not as a legitimate exoneration of the president, but rather as a blatant cover-up.
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"Today, the sham impeachment attempt concocted by Democrats ended in the full vindication and exoneration of President Donald J. Trump," said Stephanie Grisham, the White House press secretary.
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Mr. Baker had been convicted in a 2014 homicide but argued that he had been framed by the police, a claim supported by the Exoneration Project in Chicago.
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By postponing a trial that Republicans had anticipated making into a rapid public exoneration, Ms. Pelosi, above today, may be looking for leverage in negotiating the trial process.
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By September, the Innocence Project, a nonprofit legal group, had documented 365 DNA-exoneration cases in the United States since 1989; 130 involved people wrongly convicted of murder.
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Arranging for the full exoneration of the 85033 NGO defendants is an easy step that al-Sisi could take to demonstrate his good intentions toward the United States.
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Pelosi&aposs refusal to transmit the articles of impeachment to the Senate has robbed the president of what he wants most: "total and complete exoneration" following a trial.
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He quickly claimed "complete and total exoneration", while his Democratic opponents expressed dissatisfaction with the outcome and vowed to continue congressional inquiries into his business and personal dealings.
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Trump's allies painted Barr's remarks as being a "total and complete exoneration" of the president despite the fact that Mueller's report explicitly stated that it "did not exonerate" him.
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"Exoneration means there was a finding of factual innocence and usually that's done after a hearing in front of a judge with the victims and the witnesses," she explains.
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Trump, however, has adopted a more self-assured attitude about the report's pending release, telling confidants he is certain the final product will back up his claims of exoneration.
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"We are cooperating fully with the authorities and we are looking forward to a speedy and complete exoneration," Hensel's attorney Steve Sitkoff said in a statement obtained by NBC4.
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As the Flynn investigation moves closer to the White House, the President will undoubtedly say he is happy that the investigative ordeal will soon end with his total exoneration.
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The dismissal of charges against the men, who together had 18 convictions, is believed to the first-ever mass exoneration in Cook County, the nation's second most populous county.
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She indicated that Donald Trump Jr.'s initial statement after reports of the meeting remained accurate and that Trump Jr. received "total exoneration from that" through the Mueller report.
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Trump himself has offered only brief comments on the report, calling it a "complete and total exoneration" on Sunday and tweeting out quotes reflecting that view on Monday morning.
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Our reviewer wrote that Klebold "earns our pity, our empathy and, often, our admiration; and yet the book's purpose is to serve as a cautionary tale, not an exoneration."
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Mr. Torra has warned though, that dialogue with Madrid was dependent on the exoneration of the Catalan politicians charged with rebellion and other crimes related to last year's referendum.
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Where was his devotion to due process when he called for the Central Park Five to be executed, and then, after their exoneration, still maintained that they were guilty?
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That will be just in time for Trump to use what he will call his complete exoneration to launch a flurry of campaign rallies as he seeks for reelection.
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And at the end of it all, the most likely outcome is that Trump will be acquitted and claim a broad exoneration for anything he's ever been accused of.
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CK's devotion to the cause of his friend's exoneration strains his marriage, and the long sequence of stalls and setbacks in court and in parole hearings erodes Colin's morale.
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It also features a few figures who will bring baggage that might distract from Trump's case as he seeks exoneration from charges he abused his office and obstructed Congress.
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On Tuesday, he was in court when a Brooklyn judge threw out the conviction of Eliseo Deleon in what was the 15th exoneration linked to Mr. Scarcella's detective work.
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The White House is seeking a relatively brief trial that concludes with Trump's exoneration, and several Republican senators have indicated they'd prefer a quick process to acquit the president.
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"So sad that the Democrats are putting wonderful Hope Hicks through hell, for 3 years now, after total exoneration by Robert Mueller & the Mueller Report," he tweeted on Wednesday.
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Public interest in exoneration cases has risen in recent weeks as a result of the popular Netflix documentary "Making a Murderer," which raised doubts about a murder case in Wisconsin.
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Instead, the President claimed exoneration, focusing on the fact that Mueller's investigation "did not establish that members of the Trump campaign conspired with the Russian government in election interference activities."
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Indian wrestler Narsingh Yadav was handed a four-year doping ban on Thursday after the World Anti-Doping Agency won its appeal against his earlier exoneration.
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President Donald Trump's impeachment trial may have resulted in acquittal and claims of total exoneration, but Democrats say their investigation into the president's dealings in Ukraine is far from over.
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Comey first issued a surprise announcement in July firmly suggesting Clinton's exoneration, prompting Trump and his supporters to cry foul and suggest the process was "rigged" in favor of Clinton.
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Scott was convicted on faulty eyewitness testimony and served more than 12 years in prison before the confession of another inmate to the crimes led to his exoneration in 2009.
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Those seeing exoneration from the video, which is being shared by various conservative sites and through social media, appear to be misinterpreting the question that Comey was asked by Sen.
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Mr. Gatling did, and his request began an inquiry that led investigators into a tale of legal malfeasance, one that is to culminate on Monday in Mr. Gatling's formal exoneration.
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Richard Phillips, the longest-serving inmate in the United States to win exoneration after spending 45 years in prison, is selling watercolor paintings he made in prison to get by.
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RELATED: Trump predict exoneration in Russia investigation as allies fear a 'meltdown' For Trump, his recent exchanges with Putin reflect progress in his longstanding goal to improve ties with Russia.
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The documentary "The Central Park Five" traced the ultimate exoneration of five black and Latino teenagers who were convicted of beating and raping a white woman jogging in the park.
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Letting them (and at least some of their money and their extended political families) go is an extremely unappealing prospect, even if it does not come with an official exoneration.
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Though their convictions were vacated in 2002 and they successfully sued the city in a decade-long court battle, the case exposed racial attitudes that persisted long after their exoneration.
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The Exoneration Project says 15 current Chicago police officers with connections to Watts' tactical team have been put on desk duty by the Chicago Police Department following the mass exonerations.
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"I'm following this very closely and I want to see it play out to its fullest because Roger has a very good chance of exoneration in my opinion," he said.
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The senators referred to Mr. Trump's exoneration as an inevitable conclusion, arguing that even accepting the facts of the Democratic case could not sway them to change their final votes.
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"I'm following this very closely, and I want to see it play out to its fullest because Roger has a very good chance of exoneration in my opinion," Trump said.
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On the hot-button question of whether Trump should be criminally charged, Biden said it would inappropriate for him to order the prosecution or exoneration of Trump or anybody else.
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Following the release of Barr's letter, Trump claimed "complete and total exoneration," and asserted that the investigation was an "illegal takedown that failed," sentiments Sanders appeared to echo with Monday.
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Pelosi&aposs refusal to transmit the articles of impeachment against Trump to the Senate has robbed the president of what he wants most: "total and complete exoneration" following a trial.
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" Note that this is in direct conflict with the President and the White House's insistence after the topline results of the report were released that it represented a complete "exoneration.
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"It is a stain on the city," said Joshua Tepfer, a lawyer with the University of Chicago Law School's Exoneration Project, which has represented 47 of the 63 people exonerated.
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Even as Trump slammed Mueller and his team of career prosecutors, the President claimed exoneration thanks to Mueller's decision not to make a determination on whether Trump had committed a crime.
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My struggle was difficult at my age, but I can only imagine how disheartening it must be to win exoneration and come home at the age of retirement with absolutely nothing.
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While they acknowledged that the causes of each exoneration "differ sharply from one type of crime to another," they also said they found patterns of racial discrimination in all three groups.
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Nevertheless, there's good reason to believe that Trump won't get that total exoneration, as Mueller's conspicuous silences in court filings on the collusion question seem to indicate he's building toward something.
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Nie Shubin's tragically-belated exoneration was lauded by state media as evidence recent legal reforms are working, so why do the authorities remain so intent on concealing details of executions today?
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Faulty prosecutions and a heavily publicized exoneration led then Republican Illinois Governor George Ryan in 2000 to impose a 10-year execution moratorium and in 2011 the state abolished capital punishment.
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To fact-check my account of reality against Herbalife's paid consultants' claims of FTC exoneration and business-as-usual, read the FTC's actual charges of unfairness, deception, consumer harm, and illegality.
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In the nationwide 229 exoneration report (PDF), 58 of the 149 exonerees were exonerated from homicide charges, including 54 who were exonerated for murder, and four who were exonerated for manslaughter.
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"The findings of the Department of Justice are a total and complete exoneration of the president of the United States," White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a statement.
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Make no mistake: Failure to remove Trump from office would amount to personal exoneration — regardless of the facts faced — and political vindication that the effort was a witch hunt gone awry.
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And while Knox continues to be demonized following her exoneration, Sollecito has gone on to become a minor celebrity in Italian media, serving as the host of a true crime show.
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Mr. Slade told The Daily News in 2012 that he considered the exoneration of the Central Park Five, as the men came to be known, a vindication of his journalistic approach.
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"For 27 days, the debate over Mueller's findings was twisted by Barr's poisonous distortions that implied a full exoneration of President Trump," as The Washington Post's E. J. Dionne wrote yesterday.
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In the decade since he was exonerated, Mr. Thompson had married, become a churchgoer and established an organization called Resurrection After Exoneration to help and house former inmates in similar predicaments.
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If Democrats decide not to transmit the articles of impeachment, it could deprive Trump of what he wants most: "total and complete exoneration" as he heads into a tough reelection campaign.
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The uncertainty threw a wrench into long-laid plans by the White House to mount an effort at exoneration once the impeachment proceedings move across Capitol Hill to the upper chamber.
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And just looking at the broad raw data likely misses some nuances in some individual cases, such as how criminal histories explained differences in prison sentences or attempts to seek exoneration.
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Avery, the documentary suggests, may have been targeted by local law enforcement, who both felt embarrassed by his exoneration and who were now liable to pay an impossibly high sum in damages.
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Peter Strzok was the guy, the agent that played the key role in drafting, remember, her exoneration letter with James Comey months before Strzok actually even interviewed Clinton or 103 other people.
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Cuba also wants a full exoneration, and his lawyers have argued the case is littered with factual inconsistencies, a lack of conclusive video evidence and an alleged screwup in the NYPD investigation.
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Trump quickly seized on Barr's summary to claim that the Mueller report amounted to "complete and total exoneration" of himself and his entire campaign on every aspect of the special counsel's probe.
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In development since 2017, the five-part series will cover the 25 years from their trial and conviction to their exoneration and the $41 million settlement they received from New York City.
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And it comes with additional risk: More time for Republicans, who've long tried to downplay or mischaracterize the special counsel's findings as exoneration of Trump, to tear down Mueller's credibility and reputation.
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The business of collecting evidence and making the arrest is compressed so the plot can speed toward the inevitable courtroom confession and/or last-minute exoneration at the end of the hour.
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Fourth, the clear line in the Mueller report on which Democrats will focus — as they should — is that this was not an exoneration of Donald Trump on the obstruction of justice accusation.
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They worked together to address the shared pain of the African American community and the nation in the aftermath of the exoneration of the police officers associated with the Rodney King brutality.
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The exoneration of Mr Zhang was "sending a signal to enterprises and entrepreneurs that their property rights will be protected", said Peng Jiyue, a partner at Beijing- based law firm King & Capital.
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"I don't even know if you would call it an exoneration because there were so many bad things said about what she did," he added Tuesday night in his Fox News interview.
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HANNITY: She obstructs justice, you know, the leading the acid washing, then we got to cover it up and rigged investigation, writing an exoneration months before they interview her and 17 others.
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A column in The New York Times described the bank's encounter with prosecutors as a "surreal trip" that began with a 184-count indictment and ended with its exoneration by a jury.
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Just after my husband was released from Louisiana's infamous Angola prison, J.T. started Resurrection After Exoneration, an organization that provides a place for people to stay when they come home from prison.
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The administration's plan: The White House is seeking a relatively brief trial that concludes with Trump's exoneration, and several Republican senators have indicated they'd prefer a quick process to acquit the president.
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Their combative tone, struck in a string of interviews across cable news, indicates that even as Trump and his allies have claimed exoneration, they are gearing up for another drawn-out fight.
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Now he's trying to arrange the speedy exoneration of a president accused of high crimes and misdemeanors while trying to shield his senators from the political fallout, to the extent that's possible.
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Arrested and imprisoned as an adolescent in New York City, he spent 17 years in jail for a crime he didn't commit and a further decade on parole, fighting for his exoneration.
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"Today, the sham impeachment attempt concocted by the Democrats ended in the full vindication and exoneration of President Donald J. Trump," Stephanie Grisham, the White House press secretary, said in a statement.
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And they will fail to remove President Trump from office when all is said and done, instead delivering him to a perch of exoneration from which he will bludgeon them for weeks.
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In the years since his exoneration, he built a strong relationship with his son and family, and even though his epilepsy often got in the way of keeping a job, Willis kept busy.
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" But Lehman, a Republican and former secretary of the Navy in the Reagan administration, told the Guardian newspaper Wednesday that, "Our report should never have been read as an exoneration of Saudi Arabia.
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A man who fought his murder conviction while he was behind bars for 2373 years and ultimately won an exoneration without a lawyer has reached a $210 million settlement with New York City.
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But, first, we know that days after the FBI put in the fix and exonerated Hillary Clinton, exoneration before investigation, they immediately, the same actors launched a surveillance operation against the Trump campaign.
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There is no natural constituency demanding the exoneration of a motley series of heavily armed white men who killed or desecrated the bodies of foreigners overseas in the name of the United States.
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" Trump has seized on Mueller's finding that the Trump campaign and Moscow did not engage in a criminal conspiracy, claiming there was "no collusion" and calling the report a "complete and total exoneration.
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"The next phase in the innocence movement is mass exonerations," said Joshua Tepfer of the Exoneration Project, a pro-bono legal clinic that has represented 31 defendants railroaded by Watts and his crew.
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"To some extent, this shows the determination of the central leadership to genuinely address some unjust cases," William Nee, a researcher for Amnesty International in Hong Kong, said Friday of Mr. Nie's exoneration.
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Part of the reason for the 11-year delay between Mr. Wang's confession and Mr. Nie's exoneration was resistance from the local police and prosecutors who handled the original case, Mr. Xu said.
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Rodchenkov's lawyer, Jim Walden, called this week's exoneration of more than two dozen Olympians who had been accused of cheating in Sochi proof that "self-policing in international sports is a monumental failure."
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Monday night, after lengthy prison terms and eventual exoneration, they returned to the neighborhood for the premiere of "When They See Us," a Netflix mini-series about their story created by Ava DuVernay.
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Harvey Weinstein was not "cleared" of anything — an acquittal is not an exoneration — and unless the Times was in the jury room, they have no idea what jurors did or did not believe.
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The exoneration of Hillary Clinton was an act of government malfeasance, a conscious choice favoring political expediency over the principle of "equal justice under law" in order to preserve a corrupt status quo.
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Johnson's guest is Michael Morton of Texas, who had been convicted of killing his wife and spent almost 85033 years in prison before his release and exoneration in 2011 due to DNA evidence.
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"While no decision has been made to proceed with impeachment, the key facts are uncontested and not proceeding at this stage will be called a 'total exoneration' by the president," the aide said.
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To allow the articles of impeachment to go to trial when the outcome is preordained would make a mockery of the impeachment process and offer an opportunity for President Trump to claim exoneration.
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Researchers Samuel Gross, Maurice Possley, and Klara Stephens analyzed years of exoneration data, looking at how race may influence whether someone is wrongfully convicted — and later cleared — of a crime they didn't commit.
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The brothers said they were not pursuing exoneration for their father because while they claim he was framed for stealing information of the atom bomb, they do acknowledge that he was guilty of espionage.
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The only possible conclusion to draw based on this summary is that the Mueller report is a complete exoneration of President Trump from any criminal activity regarding collusion with Russia or obstruction of justice.
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The clash between Trump and the Democrats who lead the House of Representatives committees intensified after Trump framed Special Counsel Robert Mueller's findings as an exoneration, though Mueller neither charged nor exonerated the president.
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In an open letter first posted on The Root, the former students claim to have been "present during the entire trial and ultimate exoneration" of Parker and Celestin and say both men are innocent.
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"In this case, the Commonwealth got it wrong, and the pursuit of justice requires me to join in support of Mr. Harward's petition" for exoneration before the high court, Herring said in a statement.
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This is just a recent example of how ESI from the Internet of Things can be used in criminal investigations, offered as evidence and potentially lead to the conviction or exoneration of criminal suspects.
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It was the first time Mississippi had this type of exoneration, certainly at this level, with publicity of a death case and a life in prison case where the true perpetrator had been identified.
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"I came perilously close to my own execution," Ricky Jackson said during the CNN-TV One town hall event Sunday at Ohio State University, where he described the circumstances of his case and exoneration.
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" Trump has instead seized on Mueller's finding that the Trump campaign and Moscow did not engage in a criminal conspiracy, claiming there was "no collusion" and calling the report a "complete and total exoneration.
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One day in September, 2015, Joshua Tepfer, of the Exoneration Project, who also worked at a civil-rights law firm, Loevy & Loevy, was handling a case for a colleague at the Cook County courthouse.
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While a handful of GOP lawmakers expressed some concern with the findings, most joined Trump in characterizing the report, falsely, as a full exoneration of the president on both the "collusion" and obstruction questions.
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"After more than 28503 YEARS, and $22019 MILLION taxpayer dollars spent, the Mueller Report proves what I have been saying since Day One: NO COLLUSION, NO OBSTRUCTION -- COMPLETE EXONERATION," text accompanying the videos said.
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"Comey drafted the Crooked Hillary exoneration long before he talked to her (lied in Congress to Senator G), then based his decisions on her poll numbers," Trump tweeted at 8:25 am ET Monday.
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Read: We Asked an Exoneration Expert About 'Making a Murderer' and America's True Crime Obsession The second season of Sarah Koenig's true crime podcast, Serial, started last month, and while the story of Sgt.
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Since 22016, when DNA was first used in an exoneration, at least 210,211 people have been cleared of their convictions, according to the registry, underscoring the fact that the system sometimes gets things wrong.
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Not long after Thursday's speech, Trump tweeted that he was being harangued over "NOTHING" but he nonetheless said he looked forward to a speedy trial in the Senate which would end in his exoneration.
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But Mr. Trump's behavior, including his dangling of pardons to witnesses in the investigation, makes total exoneration unlikely, even though it is enormously difficult to prosecute crimes with international dimensions and assertions of privilege.
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More than a decade after the exoneration of five black and Latino teens accused of raping a woman in Central Park, President Donald Trump indicated on Tuesday that he still doesn't accept their innocence.
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But it raises the question of why Trump is so keen to prevent the full disclosure of a report that he claimed offers him "complete and total exoneration," an assertion not supported by the facts.
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Elise, her supporters, and her children, are looking beyond the sentencing to the appellate level, where they hope the same constitutional questions ruled out in superior court will become their mother's best hope for exoneration.
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HANNITY: So, this really is about Hillary committed felonies, Hillary obstructing justice, deleting, acid wash, then she had the investigation rigged, exoneration before investigation, then they immediately begin this deep state attack on Donald Trump.
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Importantly for Cohen, their exoneration raised questions about the conviction of Michael Steinberg, a longtime SAC employee who was accused of insider trading in the same stocks, because of the similarity of the government's cases.
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Yadav, a bronze medalist in the 74kg category at last year's world championships, was handed the maximum four-year doping ban after the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) won its appeal against his earlier exoneration.
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The documentary tries to makes sense of how exoneration does not simply erase the negative impact the criminal justice system has had on exonerees, and the need for reentry programs that help formerly incarcerated individuals.
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Advocates, after all, say the exoneration count is going up not because the justice system is getting worse but because technology, like the internet, has made it easier to shine a light on wrongful convictions.
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The upside to that approach for Democrats would be that the president could not claim exoneration, as he likely will if the Senate cannot muster a two-thirds vote to convict him on impeachment charges.
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"It is complete and total exoneration because the special counsel couldn't make a decision one way or another, the way the process works is they then leave that up to the attorney general," she said.
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Weeks before the seventh, in 1999, a private investigator hired by his lawyers discovered a crime-lab report that prosecutors had hidden from the defense, and that led eventually to Mr. Thompson's exoneration in 2003.
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In an email sent by the White House, Mr. Trump's surrogates were given a detailed list of talking points, including the falsehood that the report served as a "complete and total exoneration" for Mr. Trump.
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A team of supporters assisted him in securing his exoneration, including Barry Scheck of The Innocence Project, a national litigation and public policy organization, and Jay Salpeter, a New York City detective turned private investigator.
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White-collar crimes do not involve any of the issues typical in the exoneration cases, so the claim of innocence instead hinges on what the defendant knew about the transactions at issue and their purpose.
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They will ultimately issue detailed and fact-laden reports that may or may not be followed by full exoneration of Trump and his associates, criminal prosecutions, congressional resolutions of censure or impeachment of the president.
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The show is based on the real arrest, conviction, and later exoneration of five young men of color who were falsely accused of rape and lost years of their teenage lives to prison because of it.
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That left the long-held assumption that Mueller's words in his report would speak for themselves undermined -- to the political advantage of President Donald Trump, who is claiming blanket exoneration that the report does not confer.
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As a reporter for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, he covered Avery's exoneration, specifically focusing on how quickly Avery became a suspect and how the police didn't consider Gregroy Allen, the man who actually assaulted Penny Beerntsen.
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Trump's comment came as he once again claimed exoneration in his dealings with Ukraine, saying that he had done nothing wrong in pressing Ukraine's President to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter.
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Before the show, the team pointed out what Russia and America both got out of the summit: What Russia got: - total capitulation from Trump- exoneration for past meddling- permission to meddle in futureWhat America got: pic.twitter.
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Recent weeks have seen petitions circulate calling for Avery to be pardoned and released; and earlier this month, a high-profile Chicago lawyer noted for her work on exoneration cases, announced she would be representing Avery.
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Friday's filing by The Exoneration Project, a legal clinic at the University of Chicago Law School, takes apart the case built against McCullough -- including eyewitness identification, a timeline of events and the testimony of jailhouse informants.
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In an open letter first posted on The Root, the former students claim to have been "present during the entire trial and ultimate exoneration" of both Parker and his then-classmate and current collaborator Jean Celestin.
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A more recent high-profile case of Satanic Panic surrounded the murder of Meredith Kercher in Perugia, Italy, and the media circus that was the subsequent trial, retrial, and ultimate exoneration of her roommate, Amanda Knox.
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The White House is attempting to shape expectations: Even if the special counsel's report catalogues unsavory conduct and connections, it will be portrayed as exoneration if there was no "collusion" in the sense of criminal collaboration.
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On Thursday, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) rejected a request to revise its 2007 exoneration of Serbia of direct responsibility for killings, rapes and "ethnic cleansing" by Bosnian Serb forces it armed during the war.
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Exoneration: 39 Years of Imprisonment, by Rodolfo Diaz (top image), creates a visual accompaniment to the story of Ricky Jackson, a Cleveland native who spent 39 years in prison for a crime he did not commit.
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They may not have voted on that issue, but to claim the 2016 election was an exoneration of Trump in the face of all of these accusations is to take about five logic leaps too many.
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His chance encounter in prison with Matias Reyes, who was serving a life sentence for multiple rapes and a murder, led Reyes to admit to the Central Park rape, and, after DNA confirmation, the men's exoneration.
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Instead, it concludes that there is insufficient evidence that Trump was involved in a criminal conspiracy with Russia or that his campaign coordinated on election interference — a narrow finding rather than the complete exoneration Trump wanted.
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The president was pleased by the ambiguity of his position on Mr. Mueller, and thinks the possibility of being fired will focus the veteran prosecutor on delivering what the president desires most: a blanket public exoneration.
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"I want to see it play out to its fullest, because Roger has a very good chance of exoneration," he said, a likely reference to Stone's recent petition for a new trial and a possible appeal.
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A crucial component of Hamilton's exoneration, which was not emphasized enough in the piece, was the role that public awareness played—and how other wrongfully imprisoned people can use it to advocate for themselves as well.
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It is not fully an exoneration but it one of his main arguments is that the Department of Justice and FBI have had widespread problems with the decision making bias and other problems that affect the investigation.
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Donald Trump still refuses to recognize the innocence of the Central Park Five, a group of black and Latino teens wrongfully accused of brutally raping a jogger in New York's famed park, 14 years after their exoneration.
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For his part, Trump has been crowing that the report grants him "complete and total exoneration," even though a brief passage of the report already publicized by Barr says explicitly that the report "does not exonerate" Trump.
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J.T. had always told me that if he was finally able to get the money he won in court, he planned to expand Resurrection After Exoneration all over the country to help people returning home from prison.
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Trump's legal team, he said, "basically acknowledged the scheme" -- and that its main argument was "you don't need a fair trial here," adding that there was no "exoneration" if the country was deprived of a fair trial.
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Now her doctor was recommending a hysterectomy, which meant she might never give birth to her own baby, and that made her question once again her decision to forgo a second trial and the chance for exoneration.
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In 2010, the Exoneration Initiative, a nonprofit organization that provides free legal assistance to the wrongfully convicted in New York, began looking into Bunn's and Hargrave's convictions (Hargrave had not been granted parole and remained behind bars).
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"The exoneration of Tubbs is not a major input to our liquidity analysis, but it does significantly reduce the risk of the 'extraordinary' financial events that we considered," Guggenheim analyst Shahriar Pourreza wrote in a research note Thursday.
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During his speech in Michigan, Trump did not bother trying to explain the apparent disconnect between his misleading declarations of total exoneration on one hand, and his administration's apparent reluctance to release the Mueller report on the other.
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And so many of all these anti-Trump Democratic donors all tap the same people to finish the exoneration of Hillary and put the fix in and then tapped by Robert Mueller for his Trump-Russia witch hunt.
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Avery claims he was framed for Halbach's murder as retribution for filing a $36 million lawsuit against Manitowac County and authorities for being wrongfully convicted of sexual assault and serving 18 years in prison before his 2003 exoneration.
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The White House and President Donald Trump claimed victory after Attorney General William Barr issued his brief summary of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation on Sunday, asserting that it showed "a total and complete exoneration" of the president.
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After Barr released his letter summarizing Mueller's findings, Trump and his allies boasted that he'd been granted "total and complete exoneration," even though one passage from the report explicitly quoted by Barr says it "does not exonerate" Trump.
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These new guidelines meant it was possible Betov had last used the substance in October, as he contended, and he was found to have "no fault or negligence," a verdict that the I.T.F. does not consider an exoneration.
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Attorney General William Barr and President Donald Trump have relentlessly spun Mueller's decision to not prosecute the president as a "complete and total exoneration," even though there is ample evidence of both collusion and obstruction in his report.
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Consider: Trump's calm -- as detailed in the piece -- is rooted in his lawyers' assertion that (a) the investigation is wrapping up and (b) he will receive some sort of "exoneration letter" proving that he was right all along.
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In 2007, Mr. Thompson, known to friends and colleagues as J.T., started Resurrection After Exoneration, a residential and educational program for people leaving prison the same way they went in — without money, family or friends to help them.
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We are also spared the anguish of wondering if the system will ever get it right, for we know the men have already been freed thanks to the work of the nonprofit criminal exoneration organization the Innocence Project.
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For days, he has pronounced the outcome of the investigation a "complete and total exoneration" and called for the Justice Department and his allies on Capitol Hill to investigate and hold accountable those responsible for opening the inquiry.
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The relationship began to sour during the presidential campaign over Mr. Comey's exoneration of Hillary Clinton in the F.B.I.'s investigation of her email practices, which ran counter to Mr. Trump's "Lock her up!" message to his supporters.
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Once this process comes to a close, Democrats will essentially be handing Trump an exoneration, adding fuel to his claim that Democrats are solely focused on their smear campaign against him instead of trying to work with him.
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Errol Louis: Barr's letter helps Trump, for now To the surprise of nobody, President Trump and his advisers are calling the Mueller report a "total and complete exoneration" of the President, although the report states the exact opposite.
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Mr. Sullivan has largely built a career helping to overturn wrongful convictions, and he designed an indigent defense system in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina that resulted in the exoneration of thousands of people falsely convicted of crimes.
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And they have good reason to do so; the FBI's public announcements regarding the results of an incomplete investigation interfered in the campaign by first suggesting the exoneration of Clinton, then hinting at possible concerns, then clearing her again.
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Trump and his allies have claimed "total exoneration" in the wake of Barr's letter, but Democrats have said they don't trust Barr to accurately describe Mueller's investigation and have demanded to see the full report and Mueller's underlying evidence.
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Both defendants' bids to get back money they had paid failed in 2015 when the Colorado Supreme Court said it could authorize repayment only if they sued under the Exoneration Act, which was meant to compensate the wrongfully convicted.
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A former Trump adviser said Trump was also angry because Comey had never offered a public exoneration of Trump in the FBI probe into contacts between the Russian ambassador to Washington, Sergei Kislyak, and Trump campaign advisers last year.
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Trump said on Twitter that the ruling was "yet another total & complete ... vindication & exoneration" of him and his campaign, similar language he used in response to former Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report on his investigation into Russian election interference.
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Gloating and end zone dancing aside, and despite all the claims of exoneration or cover-up, it's astonishing that we would judge the behavior of a president and those around him by whether their acts were criminal or not.
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That's good news for the president and his administration, who have spent the past week taking an unearned, "exoneration"-themed victory lap and acting, not without reason, like no one will ever really try to hold them accountable again.
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But if Mueller did not end up implicating Trump after his long investigation, the political world will likely view that as an exoneration of Trump, and the conclusion of the scandal that's overshadowed his presidency more than any other.
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While many have pointed out that the report is essentially a Rorschach test of partisanship (Republicans see exoneration; Democrats see criminality), regardless of which color glasses you view it through, you have to admire the cunning of Robert Mueller.
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Defense lawyers grimly joke that if you're falsely convicted of a crime, it's best to be sentenced to death — because then at least you will get pro bono lawyers and media scrutiny that may increase the prospect of exoneration.
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But Mr. Mueller's following of the rules allows President Trump, who bows to no rules other than those dictated by his self-interest, to claim exoneration, and now, in refusing all congressional requests, to nakedly proclaim his imperial presidency.
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Ms. Reno told him that she was sitting with one of her deputies, Mr. Travis recalled on Thursday, and they had just read a news article about the DNA exoneration of a man who had been on death row.
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If the House of Representatives impeaches Mr. Trump and then the Senate acquits him, it's reasonable to assume that he would take that outcome as exoneration — and as carte blanche to do whatever he wants to win in 2020.
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But if Mueller did not end up implicating Trump after his long investigation, the political world will likely view that as an exoneration for Trump, and the conclusion of the scandal that's overshadowed his presidency more than any other.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain is to pardon thousands of gay and bisexual men who were convicted of crimes under sexual offense laws which have now been abolished, following on from the 18953 exoneration of celebrated World War Two codebreaker Alan Turing.
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Juan Williams, let&aposs say that the FBI investigators, the person that were interviewed -- let&aposs say it was Donald Trump, and change the language from gross negligence, which is the legal standard, to extreme carelessness, wrote an exoneration in May.
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And he pointed to the exoneration statement that Comey initially found Clinton guilty under the espionage act but somebody changed the language ever so slightly and that inundation allowed Comey to exonerate Clinton when in fact she had committed a crime.
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The team conducting it will include prosecutor Peter Casolaro, who played a major role in the exoneration of the five men wrongly convicted and imprisoned in connection with the rape and assault of a jogger in central Park in 85033.
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"After more than 24 years of exculpatory evidence steadily coming to light, our hope is that the court will agree Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald deserves the relief he has sought for so long: exoneration," Hart Miles, one of his attorneys, tells PEOPLE.
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Just as State's Attorney Richard Schmack did before them, McCullough's Exoneration Project lawyers raised troubling questions about whether the original prosecution team manipulated the timeline, cut testimony deals with inmates and ignored or buried details that pointed to McCullough's innocence.
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A defense attorney representing a terrorist makes a point of noting that his client has "never even read" the Quran that supposedly inspired his crimes—a "religion of peace" parenthetical that cannot help but imply that Islam somehow requires explicit exoneration.
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Avery has long claimed he was framed for Halbach's murder as retribution for filing a $36 million lawsuit against Manitowac County and authorities for being wrongfully convicted of sexual assault and serving 18 years in prison before his 2003 exoneration.
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"Exoneration means there was a finding of factual innocence and usually that's done after a hearing in front of a judge with the victims and the witnesses," criminal defense attorney Alaleh Kamran, who is not associated with the case, told PEOPLE.
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Esper on Wednesday would not say if he supports the exoneration of Gallagher, Golsteyn and Lorance, but that he had a "robust discussion" with Trump the day before to offer "the facts, the options [and] my advice" on the matter.
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In 1971 he won a George Polk Award for metropolitan reporting for articles that resulted in the exoneration of Ronald V. Johnson, a black Marine who had been convicted of raping a Japanese woman at an Okinawa base in 1968.
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"It would be nice to have that stated to him so that he could really feel fully vindicated, but we don't have that and it is unfortunate they didn't go there," said Glenn Garber, the director of the Exoneration Initiative.
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There is no real satisfaction in citing appropriate case law and crafting these words of exoneration for the officers, because nothing I -- nor anyone else, for that matter -- can say will ever bring back the precious stolen life of Melyda Corado.
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"It makes you really wonder what would the feelings on exoneration be, and how many would we see, if there were more of these organizations," said Barbara O'Brien, a law professor at Michigan State University and the editor of the registry.
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Activists and members of Anthony Weber's family say they have no doubt where things will end up: exoneration for the deputies, the details fading from public memory, and eventually, perhaps after years, a quiet payout to the family from the county.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A prosecutor of the men known as the "Central Park Five" said a new Netflix Inc series about their rape conviction and exoneration defames her with false information about how the case unfolded and her role in it.
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He will hail it as exoneration and he will go into the 2020 campaign under the banner "I Told You So," declaring that for all their talk of removing him from office, Democrats had merely been playing politics for three years.
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Three years later, they would make the history books for an ambiguous honor: With a combined 106 years in prison, theirs was most likely the longest wrongful imprisonment to end in an exoneration in the history of the United States.
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It was less a performance of the nation's chief law enforcement officer than that of a defense lawyer for Mr. Trump, citing selective facts to build a case for exoneration and sidestepping elements of the report less favorable to the president.
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It would fall to Trump's personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, to seek evidence implicating Ukraine in 2016 election meddling—a quixotic mission fueled by his client's insistence on complete exoneration as his own administration deepened its probe into Russia's very real involvement.
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Ms. Reno had read, though, about the exoneration of 16 people, including a former marine, Kirk Bloodsworth, who had been sent to death row in Maryland for the killing of a child on the strength of testimony by five eyewitnesses.
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To that end, Trump has said he looks forward to his trial in the Republican-controlled Senate, which is widely expected to acquit him, allowing the president to claim what he wants most: "total and complete exoneration" heading into the election.
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"I'm following this very closely, and I want to see it play out to its fullest because Roger has a very good chance of exoneration in my opinion," Trump said during remarks at a prisoner graduation event in Las Vegas.
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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said his longtime friend and political advisor Roger Stone has a "very good chance of exoneration," hours after a federal judge on Thursday sentenced the self-proclaimed dirty trickster to more than three years in prison.
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State Department officials have not said they'll block Yovanovitch's testimony, but Republicans in Congress have made clear they see Volker's closed-door testimony as an exoneration of any presidential wrongdoing, and the administration's letter suggests she will not be appearing.
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Now the case is headed for the Missouri Supreme Court in a legal effort that could bolster or undermine efforts by prosecutors nationwide to reopen cases where there are glaring questions about the verdict but unclear legal avenues for pursuing exoneration.
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"Modern DNA technology has further confirmed what we've known for a long time: Kerry Robinson is an innocent man," one of his lawyers, Rodney Zell, said in a news release from the Georgia Innocence Project, which helped push for Robinson's exoneration.
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Since he was impeached last month, the president has leaned on his party's unified opposition to dismiss the whole effort as a partisan "hoax," and he has made it clear he looks forward to an exoneration by the Republican-led chamber.
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Several former Justice Department employees who have found themselves skewered by the president and his allies over the years claimed exoneration over the inspector general's findings, including Comey and fellow former top FBI officials Andrew McCabe, Lisa Page and Peter Strzok.
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Former FBI Director James Comey can obviously peer into the future as he wrote the exoneration of Hillary Clinton's scheme to hide her State Department email from public scrutiny, and her mishandling of classified material, several months before he interviewed her.
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The big picture: Some Republicans are seizing on the section of Morrison's opening statement in which he says he "was not concerned that anything illegal was discussed," on the July 25 call as proof of Trump's exoneration, Axios' Alayna Treene writes.
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As the public learned soon after the exoneration, local police had gone to the sheriff's department within days after the attack to report that Allen may have been responsible; the department, convinced that it had the right man, declined to investigate.
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This decision let loose the narrative that the special counsel did not establish coordination or conspiracy between Trump and Russia, and that the president, therefore, could not have obstructed justice — allowing Trump to declare "total exoneration" for nearly a month.
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One official suggested the President's initial "total exoneration" response to the report, which was informed by Barr's memo to lawmakers, would not likely have been dramatically different had Barr's letter been worded differently, since the "no collusion" conclusion was more cut-and-dry.
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I ended up spending months reading hundreds of accounts of false accusations in newspapers and magazines, in scientific and government studies, and in the database of the US National Registry of Exonerations, which has documented every exoneration in the United States since 1989.
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It was covered up by the top-ranking FBI officials - Comey, Page, Strzok, Loretta Lynch to an extent, Andrew McCabe, and others, and they covered it up, they rigged an investigation, they wrote an exoneration before they interviewed her and 230 other people.
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Former homicide prosecutor Richard Sax, who is one of the individuals named in the motion, told the Philadelphia Inquirer that the DA's decision to support Patterson's exoneration was a "horrific travesty of justice," and believes that Krasner is acting on personal animus.
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But the incredible tale of Dixon's exoneration doesn't end there: His innocence was established with the help of a group of undergraduate students, themselves under the direction of two professors — the authors of this article — who were childhood friends with a unique connection.
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Do you believe as I believe that when they wrote the exoneration before the investigation that it was rigged do you also believe that when they use the dossier to get FISA warrants that that was illegal and they did it four times?
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Russell Ainsworth, who represented McCullough on behalf of the Exoneration Project, a legal clinic at the University of Chicago Law School, called three witnesses: McCullough; Janice Edwards Swafford, his high school girlfriend; and Nancy Steblay, a leading expert on memory and eyewitness identifications.
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The U.K.'s Daily Mail noted that "Trump revels in "complete exoneration" and blasts "illegal' probe" and reported the president's happiness at the result, quoting an unnamed senior administration official as telling the paper that he hadn't "seen Trump this happy in months.
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At least, to foot it up-front: shortchanging public defence, like some other seeming economies, is actually expensive, leading as it does to miscarriages of justice (Louisiana's exoneration rate is the country's second highest), longer sentences and so a higher, pricier prison population.
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The news reports raised fresh doubts about Trump's decision to take a victory lap following the Russia probe, during which he has said Mueller delivered him a "complete and total exoneration" and called for a counterinvestigation into the origins of the probe.
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Eric SwalwellEric Michael SwalwellLive coverage: Schiff closes with speech highlighting claims of Trump's corruption The Hill's 12:30 Report — Presented by Johnson & Johnson — Vindman defends witnesses from 'cowardly' attacks at third day of hearings Swalwell on flatulence allegation: Total exoneration MORE (D-Calif.).
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On Thursday, attorneys for Truth Aquatics owners Glen Fritzler and Dana Fritzler filed a lawsuit seeking "exoneration from or limitation of liability" regarding the fire, which is believed to have killed all 34 passengers who were sleeping below deck at the time.
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Now conservatives and Fox News who once argued that Russian interference in the 2016 election was "fake news" are declaring that Friday's indictments somehow offer an "implicit exoneration of his campaign" regarding accusations of alleged "collusion" between the campaign and Russian operatives.
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"When They See Us," Ava DuVernay's poetic and excruciating story of the railroading and eventual exoneration of the Central Park Five on Netflix, connects to the present only briefly, by referencing the dehumanizing demagogy of the New York businessman Donald Trump in 1989.
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On Thursday, just before the report's release, Mr. Barr held a news conference in which he offered a striking defense of Mr. Trump, highlighting facts to help build a case for exoneration and avoiding assertions that were more damaging for the president.
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With the end of the impeachment trial now in sight and acquittal assured, a triumphant Mr. Trump emerges from the biggest test of his presidency emboldened, ready to claim exoneration and take his case of grievance, persecution and resentment to the campaign trail.
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He's become a big part of the news over the last little while and I'm following this very closely and I want to see it play out to its fullest, because Roger has a very good chance of exoneration in my opinion.
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Rather than definitively resolving the issues at stake, the report quickly became weaponized by both sides, interpreted in radically different ways that underscored the nation's deep polarization — total exoneration according to the president and his champions, a devastating condemnation according to his critics.
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Beginning in the spring of 1989, when the teenagers were first questioned about the assault and rape of white female jogger Trisha Meili, the series spans 25 years, highlighting their exoneration in 2002 and the settlement reached with the city of New York in 2014.
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After two years of calling Mr Mueller's investigation a "rigged witch hunt" and "total hoax", Mr Trump immediately sought to bolster the special counsel's credibility, saying that the report "could not have been better" and falsely claiming on Twitter that it grants him "TOTAL EXONERATION".
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The justices ruled 7-1 that a 2013 Colorado law called the Exoneration Act, which forced cleared defendants to prove their innocence in a subsequent lawsuit before getting back money paid to the state after conviction, violated the U.S. Constitution's guarantee of due process.
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And we also know that Comey and Trump hater Peter Strzok, they started writing the exoneration of Hillary in early May of 73, but they didn&apost interview her and 17 other witnesses until early July and three days later, oh, magically, they exonerated her.
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"Look, it's a pretty sad exoneration for a President to say, yes, the FBI director assured him in January that the President personally was not, at that time, a target of the larger investigation into espionage involving his campaign and his closest supporters," Frum said.
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The president, who had long criticized Mueller's probe as a "witch hunt," touted Barr's four-page summary as a "total and complete exoneration" of him and his campaign, even though the report explicitly says it "does not exonerate" Trump on the question of obstruction.
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Democrats intensified their demands for Robert Mueller's full report after learning the special counsel's findings from his Trump-Russia investigation run to more than 300 pages, while President Donald Trump boasted of total exoneration based on a four-page summary by his attorney general.
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AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on Friday halted the execution of Rodney Reed, who was convicted of killing his 19-year-old lover in 1996, as recent calls for his exoneration and a fresh look at his case got more intense.
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Donald Trump Jr.Donald (Don) John TrumpSwalwell on flatulence allegation: Total exoneration Conway and Haley get into heated feud: 'You'll say anything to get the vice-presidential nomination' Conservative group cuts ties with Michelle Malkin MORE has also tweeted an unproven claim about the whistleblower's identity.
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Earlier Thursday, during a closed-door session with her caucus, Ms. Pelosi made the case more explicitly, arguing that the president hoped to provoke impeachment in order to achieve public exoneration by the Republican-controlled Senate, which acts as the final arbiter on impeachment hearings.
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By an almost straight party-line vote, the Senate acquitted President Trump on the charges that he abused his power and obstructed Congress to aid his own re-election, bringing the impeachment trial to a close and allowing Mr. Trump to claim vindication and exoneration.
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WASHINGTON (CNN)Though President Donald Trump has claimed "complete and total exoneration" based on Attorney General William Barr's summary of special counsel Robert Mueller's report on Russian interference in the 29 election, the American public disagrees, according to a new CNN Poll conducted by SSRS.
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In what's said to be the first mass exoneration in history, an Illinois judge has thrown out the convictions of 15 men who were framed by a corrupt ex-police sergeant and several of his officers in the Chicago Police Department between 2003 and 2008.
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Beginning in the spring of 1989, when the teenagers were first questioned about the assault and rape of white female jogger Trisha Meili, the series will span 25 years, highlighting their exoneration in 2002 and the settlement reached with the city of New York in 2014.
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While exoneration finally came, the cops and prosecutors responsible are depicted as being largely unrepentant, and the damage -- not just to the central five, but rippling outward to those around them -- seems incalculable, no matter what price the parties eventually reached to settle a subsequent lawsuit.
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Without the chance of a pardon, Avery's best chances lie in finding new evidence that hasn't been presented in court yet, similar to the DNA evidence that led to his previous exoneration after serving 18 years in prison for the rape and assault of a female jogger.
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He believes — and continues to believe, according to his Twitter presence — that Avery was innocent in his 1985 rape case (where he was tried fo sexual assault, attempted murder, and false imprisonment before his exoneration in 2003), but did in fact murder Teresa Halbach in 2005.
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To get the measure through the Republican-led House, Utah legislators might point to another reason to abolish capital punishment, one counterintuitively illustrated in the recent executions of a Texas serial killer and an Oklahoma gangbanger: State executions of the guilty sometimes impede exoneration of the innocent.
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While the United States removed Sina Bank, Bank Melli, and Future Bank from its sanctions list in order to reach a nuclear accord with Iran, that was purely a political concession, not an exoneration of these banks for their illicit activity while Hemmati was at the helm.
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TV's "Rising" program features Donald Trump Jr.Donald (Don) John TrumpSwalwell on flatulence allegation: Total exoneration Conway and Haley get into heated feud: 'You'll say anything to get the vice-presidential nomination' Conservative group cuts ties with Michelle Malkin MORE to discuss his new book, "Triggered"; Rep.
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Eric SwalwellEric Michael SwalwellLive coverage: Schiff closes with speech highlighting claims of Trump's corruption The Hill's 12:30 Report — Presented by Johnson & Johnson — Vindman defends witnesses from 'cowardly' attacks at third day of hearings Swalwell on flatulence allegation: Total exoneration MORE (D-Calif.), another Intelligence Committee member.
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Any scenario is possible, including one in which impeachment redounds to Trump's benefit and increases the chances of his re-election, because he paints himself a martyr, eludes conviction in the Senate, frames that as exoneration and watches his fans mobilize and turn out as never before.
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Last year, at an exoneration hearing for one of those defendants, Vanessa Gathers, the Conviction Review Unit noted that the only evidence against her at her manslaughter trial was a brief confession that she gave to Mr. Scarcella and then repeated to an assistant district attorney.
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Barr, demonstrating more obvious tells than a rookie poker player in the pit of a Las Vegas casino, declined to give straight answers about whether he had sent a draft of Mueller's report to the White House and whether the President was accurate in claiming total exoneration.
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" Published before the Senate voted to acquit Trump of two articles of impeachment, Baker wrote that "a triumphant Mr. Trump emerges from the biggest test of his presidency emboldened, ready to claim exoneration and take his case of grievance, persecution and resentment to the campaign trail.
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It is impossible to know if requiring that all 12 jurors agree would have spared Stewart or anyone else from being sent to prison, but prior to Stewart's exoneration, Innocence Project New Orleans found ten cases in which a non-unanimous jury convicted someone who was later freed.
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Other pressing questions center on James Comey's infamous exoneration memo that we now know was written months before Hillary Clinton's FBI interview, as well as what Loretta Lynch and former President Bill Clinton really spoke about during their secret obstruction of justice summit on the tarmac in Phoenix.
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" The Intercept's editor-in-chief, Betsy Reed, said in a statement included in the outlet's story that The Intercept "will continue to fight for the complete exoneration Glenn deserves, and for the rights of all journalists to exercise the freedoms they are entitled to under the Brazilian constitution.
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Mueller's report could alter investigations Since Barr's summary last month stated Mueller's investigation did not establish a criminal conspiracy and Mueller did not reach a conclusion on obstruction of justice, Trump has claimed total exoneration -- and Republicans have gone on offense calling on Democrats to end their investigations.
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"After more than 22019 YEARS, and $25 MILLION taxpayer dollars spent, the Mueller Report proves what I have been saying since Day One: NO COLLUSION, NO OBSTRUCTION -- COMPLETE EXONERATION," said one version of an ad purchased by the president's campaign committee, directing users to an email sign-up page.
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"After more than 2 YEARS, and $25 MILLION taxpayer dollars spent, the Mueller Report proves what I have been saying since Day One: NO COLLUSION, NO OBSTRUCTION -- COMPLETE EXONERATION," said one version of an ad purchased by the president's campaign committee, directing users to an email sign-up page.
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Barry Scheck, a founder of the Innocence Project, a nonprofit group that seeks to overturn wrongful convictions, says some who work toward exoneration have complained to him that those exonerated of drug charges often are just accidentally not guilty, and shouldn't be added to the National Registry of Exonerations.
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"It was incredibly frustrating to know that there was technology out there that would lead to the truth, that would give him his innocence — and we were blocked from it," said Vanessa Potkin, a lawyer with the Innocence Project, a nonprofit organization that assisted Mr. Williams with his exoneration.
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The special counsel notes in his letter that just a day after Mr. Barr's effort to spin the findings of the investigation (which Mr. Trump crowed was a "Complete and Total EXONERATION"), Mr. Mueller raised "concern" about all the confusion and misreporting that the attorney general had caused.
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How One Woman's Fight to Save Her Family Helped Lead to a Mass Exoneration [The New Yorker] The Afro-Pessimist Temptation [The New York Review of Books] The Defiant Ones [Smithsonian] There Are Wild Swings in School Desegregation Data [Education Week] We publish many articles that touch on race.
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Christopher Scott, a black man who spent nearly 13 years in prison for a murder he did not commit, said he had never received a hug from a judge in all his experiences with the criminal justice system, including at his exoneration hearing in Dallas County in 2009.
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Some in the President's political orbit have begun to believe -- and hope -- that the Mueller report will be good news for the President, granting him the exoneration that Trump has so desperately sought since the Justice Department began to probe allegations of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.
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Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana and Korey Wise were invited to the awards show by Ava DuVernay, the writer-director of When They See Us, who has said she was inspired to tell the story of their prosecution and exoneration after a tweet from Santana himself.
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Washington (CNN)White House press secretary Sarah Sanders celebrated the findings of the Russia investigation Monday, saying "it's a great day for America," while also echoing President Donald Trump's claim of exoneration following the release of a summary of special counsel Robert Mueller's report by Attorney General William Barr.
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The Exoneration Project and another Chicago-area lawyer, Joel Flaxman, worked to vet cases of convicted men and women who said they were innocent of the charges imposed on them by members of the team led by Sergeant Watts and who had filed misconduct complaints against the officers.
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"The (special counsel's) inverted-proof-standard and 'exoneration' statements can be understood only as political statements, issuing from persons (federal prosecutors) who in our system of government are rightly expected never to be political in the performance of their duties," Flood said, echoing Trump's longstanding position that Mueller's team is biased.
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If you got your initial information about special counsel Robert Mueller's report from Fox News — a network where the report has been framed as a complete exoneration of the president — you were much more likely than not to hold the false belief that Trump was totally cleared, according to new polling.
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Instead of the "total exoneration" Trump had proclaimed earlier, the report portrayed the President as deceitful and paranoid, encouraging his aides to withhold the truth and cross ethical lines in an attempt to thwart a probe into Russia's interference in US elections -- his "Achilles heel," according to one forthcoming adviser.
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As the investigation and process continues, Mr. Gibbs remains hopeful that a thorough, searching and complete investigation will reveal the actual facts, including the absence of any scientific, physical, or credible evidence implicating him, thereby paving the way for his exoneration and return to his family and one-year old child.
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He heckled Donald Trump Jr.Donald (Don) John TrumpSwalwell on flatulence allegation: Total exoneration Conway and Haley get into heated feud: 'You'll say anything to get the vice-presidential nomination' Conservative group cuts ties with Michelle Malkin MORE at an event last week where the president's son was promoting his new book.
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Like Mueller's eponymous 448-page report detailing the findings of his nearly-two-year-long investigation into Russian interference and possible obstruction of justice, the former special counsel's testimony confirmed that Trump was not cleared on the charge of obstruction nor was Mueller's report a total exoneration of the President.
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"There's obvious things that we're going to get into — the exoneration letter and the term was changed from 'gross negligence' to 'extreme carelessness,' questions on the decision made to run the investigation out of headquarters versus the field office, and just all of the unusual things about the investigation," Rep.
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Therefore, the owners, who have claimed they "used reasonable care to make the Conception seaworthy," are asking a judge to "invoke the benefits of exoneration," or to limit their liability to equal the current value of the vessel, which is "zero," should a judge find them at fault for the fire.
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Although Trump has called the report both "total exoneration" and "total bullshit," it&aposs anything but, containing meticulously compiled accounts of the lead-up to the 2016 election, the Trump administration&aposs dealings with foreign actors, and enough plotlines to fill any number of prestige limited series in the coming years.
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Fueled by allegations of sex games gone wrong, the 2007 arrests of Knox and her then-boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, for the stabbing death of Knox's study-abroad roommate, Meredith Kercher, in Perugia, Italy, seized the headlines and remained there through two trials and the suspects' eventual 2015 exoneration by Italy's highest court.
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" Meanwhile the Washington Post reports tonight that Trump "has expressed certainty that the special-counsel probe into his campaign's possible collusion with Russia will be finished by the end of the year, complete with an exoneration from Robert S. Mueller III, according to several friends who have spoken with him in recent days.
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Nationwide, the reversal rate for resolved death sentences is 72 percent, and while the average exoneration rate for death row inmates in other states is 1.8 percent (less than half of Louisiana's rate), that still translates to a national total of 156 innocent people sentenced to death and later exonerated since 1973.
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Likewise, arguments around the death penalty in the U.S. focusing on topics like DNA exoneration and definitions of cruel and unusual punishment, wind up ignoring the fact that the death penalty is only one of many ways in which our justice system unfairly treats the poor and people of color, particularly African Americans.
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While political professionals have long used the anonymous quote to air policy disagreements and leak sensitive information they want in public view, Donald Trump's Washington also seems to use anonymity as a form of exoneration, a way to telegraph to the world: Yes, we know that our boss is crazy and dangerous.
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While the president and his all-too-familiar surrogates spent the weekend doubling down on claims of "exoneration" that have no basis in fact, they have been more than met with a chorus of calls for Democrats to hold accountable a flagrantly corrupt president who has repeatedly flouted the rule of law.
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"Once his name was in the frame and he was arrested, the police became blinkered, fitting the crime around him rather than seeing if he did in fact fit the crime," says Neil Humber, a former journalist whose long campaign formed the basis of Shirley's appeal, which led to his exoneration in 2003.
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Barr and the White House fill the vacuum Aggressive interventions by Barr and the White House created an unstoppable narrative of exoneration that dulled the political impact of an investigation that -- if it did not find prosecutable crimes -- sketched a devastating picture of lies, apparent abuses of power and duplicity in the West Wing.
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Donald Trump Jr.Donald (Don) John TrumpSwalwell on flatulence allegation: Total exoneration Conway and Haley get into heated feud: 'You'll say anything to get the vice-presidential nomination' Conservative group cuts ties with Michelle Malkin MORE responded to claims of coordinated efforts within the White House to undermine his father during an interview with Hill.
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A federal Judge in the Southern District of N.Y. completely dismissed a lawsuit brought by the Democratic National Committee against our historic 2016 campaign for President," Trump tweeted, calling it "yet another total & complete vindication & exoneration from the Russian, WikiLeaks and every other form of HOAX perpetrated by the DNC, Radical Democrats and others.
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" (The FDA approved Puma's product in July 2017.) Clubok said the jury verdict, in combination with a pre-trial summary judgment ruling for the company on claims stemming from a press release announcing a 33 percent improvement in the disease-free survival rate for patients who took the drug, amount to "an almost complete exoneration.
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The President seems so convinced of his impending exoneration that he is telling associates Mueller will soon write a letter clearing him that Trump can brandish to Washington and the world in a bid to finally emerge from the cloud of suspicion that has loomed over the first chapter of his presidency, the sources said.
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Far from the "total and complete exoneration" that President Trump prematurely claimed when Attorney General William Barr released his four-page summary of Mr. Mueller's work, the special counsel's report, over the course of 400-plus pages, lays out a compelling case — even absent a prosecutive conclusion — of obstruction of justice by the president.
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Stephen Bannon didn't take out an ad in 1989 to condemn the Central Park Five, who were accused of raping a woman they didn't actually rape, were exonerated like 25 years later, and Donald Trump then takes out an editorial in the same newspaper saying that the settlement and the exoneration were stupid and bogus.
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That is not because he has a "very good chance of exoneration," as President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump passes Pence a dangerous buck Overnight Health Care — Presented by American Health Care Association — Trump taps Pence to lead coronavirus response | Trump accuses Pelosi of trying to create panic | CDC confirms case of 'unknown' origin | Schumer wants .
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Chris Van HollenChristopher (Chris) Van HollenSenate Democrat on impeachment trial: 'If you have a rigged trial there's no exoneration in acquittal' Sunday shows preview: Senate gears up for impeachment trial after holiday break Trump faces pivotal year with Russia on arms control MORE (D-Md.) is scheduled to appear on ABC's "This Week," Sen.
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And as for the DOJ, the IG report that we just mentioned that&aposs coming out, Sara carter also with us tonight breaking huge news -- a draft of this highly anticipated report on the FBI and the DOJ&aposs handling of this Clinton email investigation, exoneration before investigation, has now been sent to Congress, finally 14, 15 months.
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It also suggests, convincingly, that there was a grand conspiracy against Avery, positing that after his release in the 1985 case, Manitowoc County officials were so embarrassed by his exoneration, and felt so threatened by a lawsuit Avery filed against them, that they did everything in their power to frame an innocent man for a second crime.
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Those who say they have heard or read "a great deal" about the report (about 7% of the public), however, are more apt to say the President has been cleared: 226% in that group say Trump and his campaign have been exonerated of any collusion, while 2701% say it wasn't exoneration but that collusion could not be proven.
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The Administration is trying to rewrite history and burn down the rule of law, and the media -- the non-Trump media -- may be the only force to counter the ultimate fake news story: That somehow a report that details shockingly corrupt activity by a President sworn to defend our Constitution and uphold our laws is actually a statement of exoneration.
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Meadows said Reeker essentially echoed testimony from an earlier witness — former U.S. envoy to Ukraine Kurt VolkerKurt VolkerDemocrats raise stakes with impeachment vote Democrat unveils bill capping number of ambassadors who are political appointees Trump's Russia ambassador pick says he knew of Giuliani 'campaign' against ex-Ukraine envoy MORE — whose deposition Republicans have pointed to as an "exoneration" of Trump's actions in Ukraine.
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Friends and family were in the audience — including Korey Wise, one of the five men who as teenagers were wrongly convicted of the rape of a jogger in New York City and a subject of the Ava DuVernay Netflix series "When They See Us" — as well as members of the Innocence Project, a nonprofit organization that assisted Mr. Williams with his exoneration.
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Democrats are desperate to get the report, particularly after the White House touted Barr's principal findings of the 85033-month probe as an exoneration of President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE.
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It certainly can be argued that Donald Trump Jr.Donald (Don) John TrumpSwalwell on flatulence allegation: Total exoneration Conway and Haley get into heated feud: 'You'll say anything to get the vice-presidential nomination' Conservative group cuts ties with Michelle Malkin MORE, Ivanka and Eric — like Hillary Clinton, Michelle Obama and others before them — voluntarily stepped into the political arena and are fair game.
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Eric SwalwellEric Michael SwalwellLive coverage: Schiff closes with speech highlighting claims of Trump's corruption The Hill's 12:30 Report — Presented by Johnson & Johnson — Vindman defends witnesses from 'cowardly' attacks at third day of hearings Swalwell on flatulence allegation: Total exoneration MORE (D-Calif.), a member of the House Intelligence Committee, said Friday night as he left the closed-door deposition.
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From calling for a return of the death penalty after the arrest of the Central Park Five (and continuing to believe in their guilt even after DNA exoneration) to spending five years insisting Barack Obama was a Kenyan-born Muslim, to the recent Charlottesville vileness, Trump's history with regard to African-Americans, and indeed anyone who's not white, is dreadful.
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Trump tweeted that Comey drafted an exoneration of Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE "long before he talked to her" in the investigation into her use of a private email server as secretary of State.
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The university's exoneration of its biology department comes even as new evidence has emerged about ingrained sexist attitudes among some of its faculty, including the distribution of a parody scientific paper at Baker's retirement party heralding discoveries of a primate dubbed "Megalabia," a crude reference to female genitalia (see sidebar.) The Verge's own investigation into charges of sexism at Texas Tech took place last year.
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We&aposre talking about -- again, we&aposve only got a small sampling of the Strzok-Page memos and it&aposs so revealing -- insurance policies, how much they hate Trump, how Strzok as we&aposve been reporting today is involved in everything, literally interviews Hillary, she&aposs exonerated, he&aposs writing it months before the exoneration before he interviews Hillary, 17 other witnesses, and a few days later.
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It has no qualms, for example, with showing a murdered woman's bloodied naked body over and over, examining her corpse in close-up, despite the fact that we know basically nothing of her as a person, nothing of who misses her or loved her, and nothing of how she lived or died apart from where it relates to the exoneration of the male lead.
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George Conway on Sunday mocked White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders by asking her to "fix" a tweet declaring complete exoneration for President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE.
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Attorney General William BarrWilliam Pelham BarrThe Hill's Morning Report - Trump searches for backstops amid recession worries Mueller report fades from political conversation Barr removes prisons chief after Epstein death MORE's four-page letter to Congress summarizing the Mueller report, sent weeks before it was made public, garnered swift backlash from congressional Democrats who said Barr acted in Trump's interest and helped him claim total exoneration.
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And while a strict cost-benefit analysis doesn't incorporate other benefits to testing, those are still worth noting: closure for victims, the exoneration of falsely accused people, potential prevention of other crimes committed by sexual offenders, and the fact that populating the CODIS database with more kits can help solve future crimes and incentivize other victims to report sexual assaults, one of the most underreported violent crimes.
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"There's obvious things that we're going to get into — the exoneration letter, and the term was changed from 'gross negligence' to 'extreme carelessness,' questions on the decision made to run the investigation out of headquarters versus the field office, and just all of the unusual things about the investigation," said Jordan, who has been one of the GOP's fiercest attack dogs on perceived bias at the FBI.
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After falsely claiming total exoneration, Trump used Barr's letter to go on the attack against some of his most prominent Democratic critics — including the chair of the House Intelligence Committee, Adam Schiff, who went viral earlier in the day when he responded to a Republican effort to compel him to resign during a hearing by reciting the major pieces of evidence suggesting the Trump campaign did in fact collude with Russia.
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While no amount of money can begin to overcome hundreds of years of chattel slavery and its present day vestiges, reparations may assume any number of other forms, according to the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America, such as land, economic and community development, exoneration of political prisoners, scholarships, racially unjust laws and the freeing of political prisoners, even resources for those who want to repatriate to Africa.
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As the evidence mounts of a quid pro quo in President TrumpDonald John TrumpBiden allies see boost in Tuesday's election results Sanders vows to end Trump's policies as he unveils immigration proposal Republicans warn election results are 'wake-up call' for Trump MORE's dealings with Ukraine, the president's allies in Congress are increasingly hopeful they'll find exoneration in a singular figure: the government whistleblower they're fighting to expose.
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Coppins, an astute critic of the Trump administration, found he was becoming strangely and unexpectedly disoriented: There were days when I would watch, live on TV, an impeachment hearing filled with damning testimony about the president's conduct, only to look at my phone later and find a slickly edited video — served up by the Trump campaign — that used out-of-context clips to recast the same testimony as an exoneration.
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The White House on Wednesday declared President TrumpDonald John TrumpSchiff: Bolton 'refused' to submit affidavit on Trump's involvement in Ukraine controversy Yang congratulates Romney for 'voting his conscious and character' in convicting Trump McConnell 'disappointed' by Romney impeachment vote, but 'I'm going to need his support' MORE had received "full vindication and exoneration" from a "sham impeachment" after the Senate voted to acquit him on charges he abused his power and obstructed Congress.
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Others went to Joe Arpaio, the former Arizona sheriff who became a hero of anti-immigrant conservatives, and Kristian Saucier, a former Navy sailor whose conviction for taking souvenir photographs on a nuclear submarine was cited as an example of double standards compared to Hillary Clinton's exoneration by the F.B.I. In April alone, Mr. Trump denied 82 requests for pardons and 98 requests for commutations that came through the pardon attorney's office.
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Read more: Trump decided to replace his top spy chief after his aide told Congress that Russia is interfering in 2020 to help Trump winTrump's campaign just reportedly paid millions to buy out the ad space on YouTube's homepage ahead of the election, ensuring it will reach viewers at a crucial timeTrump says Roger Stone 'has a very good chance of exoneration' after he was sentenced to 40 months in prisonFormer Illinois Gov.
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" For another compare and contrast, I tweeted out Trump's "no obstruction" poster from May and Pelosi's "no exoneration" poster from Wednesday... How it was covered on Fox "There was the potential for the testimony to be especially significant for Fox News Channel viewers," the AP's David Bauder wrote, "since the network's opinion hosts had repeatedly derided Mueller over the course of the investigation and gave Trump frequent opportunities to wrongfully declare the report had cleared him.
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That's why the American public deserves to know if Comey's former colleagues — many of whom we now know aided in his exoneration of Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE and have participated in the contrived investigation of Donald Trump — scrutinized his literary claims or simply green-lighted his every word.
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Democrats on Sunday argued that the release of a controversial memo accusing the Justice Department of surveillance abuses does not vindicate President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE in the Russia investigation — and Republicans are also avoiding declarations of Trump's exoneration.
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The final episode is a bravura, richly theatrical portrait of the life of the story's most tragic character, Korey Wise (played with blustering vulnerability by Jharrel Jerome, from " Moonlight "), who was arrested at sixteen, then placed in an adult prison, where he spent years in solitary confinement, until, in an outcome so outrageous it would never work in fiction, he had a run-in with the man who had actually raped Meili, and whose confession led to the boys' exoneration.
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And when you found Hillary&aposs deleted emails that were marked "C" for classified, you decide to believe her when she said it was only a reference to the letter "C" in the alphabet in spite of the fact there was no A or B before C. People in the intelligence community laughed at you, Jim, and when you wrote an exoneration of Hillary months before you interviewed her and 22014 main witnesses saying it&aposs done all the time, attorneys across the country laughed at you.
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Rep. Eric SwalwellEric Michael SwalwellLive coverage: Schiff closes with speech highlighting claims of Trump's corruption The Hill's 28500:6900 Report — Presented by Johnson & Johnson — Vindman defends witnesses from 'cowardly' attacks at third day of hearings Swalwell on flatulence allegation: Total exoneration MORE (D-Calif.) said he had been cleared of suspicion after MSNBC's official "Hardball" Twitter account said a loud sound resembling flatulence during his interview did not come from Swalwell, but from a "coffee mug scraping across the desk" of host Chris Matthews.
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The White House on Sunday declared victory after the Justice Department released special counsel Robert MuellerRobert (Bob) Swan MuellerMueller report fades from political conversation Trump calls for probe of Obama book deal Democrats express private disappointment with Mueller testimony MORE's conclusions in the Russia investigation, calling them "a total and complete exoneration" for President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE couldn't pull off his "exoneration" screed, quickly adopted by Fox News and publications such as the New York Post, without Attorney General William BarrWilliam Pelham BarrThe Hill's Morning Report - Trump searches for backstops amid recession worries Mueller report fades from political conversation Barr removes prisons chief after Epstein death MORE as his committed proxy.
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At the time, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellNew Parnas evidence escalates impeachment witnesses fight On The Money — Presented by Wells Fargo — Trump signs first phase of US-China trade deal | Senate to vote Thursday on Canada, Mexico deal | IRS provides relief for those with discharged student loans GOP senator: 2020 candidates must recuse themselves from impeachment trial MORE did have a favorable climate in which to conduct a sham trial, instantly acquit Trump, and hand the president a major political victory with a credible case for exoneration.
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In truth, he wrote an exoneration memo long before essential witnesses were even interviewed, and of course, his deputy director Andrew McCabe that I didn&apost even put on my chart lied so many times the guy had to be fired, and to get someone to fire in that agency is amazing, and Attorney General Loretta Lynch who pushed to call the Clinton investigation a matter lied when she said there were no e-mails between her Department and the FBI when she used an email with a fake name to write about her infamous tarmac meeting with former President Clinton.
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