The act or process of proving that someone is not guilty or clearing them of blame.
Derived from Latin 'exculpatio,' this noun form emerged in legal English to describe the formal process of removing guilt or blame from a person.
In wrongful conviction cases, exculpation through DNA evidence has freed hundreds of innocent people—it's literally the reversal of a conviction.
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