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Quotes About Exoneration

How good it is to love live things, even when what they've done is terrible, how much we each want to be the pure exonerated creature, to be turned loose into out own wide open without a single harness of sin to stop us.
~ Ada Limón
How good it is to love live things, even when what they've done is terrible, how much we each want to be the pure exonerated creature, to be turned loose into our own wide open without a single harness of sin to stop us.
~ Ada Limón
But perhaps exoneration via the complex and poorly understood root of genetics is missing the broader point that maybe we shouldn't abuse children.
~ Adam Rutherford
I'm absolutely, l00 percent, not guilty.
~ O. J. Simpson
Dyer was held guilty of 'a grave error of judgment', the report offered weak recommendations and exonerated O'Dwyer.
~ Rajmohan Gandhi
Thomas was sick of being accused of knowing things.
~ James Dashner
The court exonerated Admiral Kimmel of all charges and laid the blame squarely on Washington. The Army Pearl Harbor Board also concluded that Washington had full foreknowledge of the attack.
~ James Perloff
Nearly two more years would pass before appellate Judge Claudio Pratillo Hellmann announced his verdict, declaring them innocent upon appeal—under Italian law an even more forceful verdict than not guilty because it means exoneration and an absence of any compelling evidence at all.
~ Douglas Preston
We want to blame an individual so that everyone else is exculpated. Or we blame a historical process as a way of exonerating individuals.
~ Julian Barnes
The most beautiful words in the English language are 'not guilty'.
~ Maxim Gorky
What is perfect, anyway? The absence of perfection and the existence of human nature in place of something we want to do or we don't want to do, is an excuse, not an exoneration.
~ Allie Burke, Paper Souls
The Tydings Committee eventually criticized McCarthy for his behavior and exonerated most of those attacked by him. McCarthy's accusations, it reported, "represented perhaps the most nefarious campaign of half-truths and untruths in the history of the Republic.
~ David Halberstam
The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
I spent 30 years on Alabama's death row for a crime I did not commit.
~ Anthony Ray Hinton
To make a 53-man roster would be a huge accomplishment - right up there with getting exonerated for a crime I didn't commit.
~ Brian Banks
How do you survive living in a cell knowing you are innocent? Many of those exonerated whom I have met seem to have a more benign, grateful attitude toward life than those of us who walk free. Many find a religious or spiritual stronghold.
~ Richard LaGravenese
This is one of the passages in the letter that could hardly have come from the pen of Paul. The assertion that women will be saved through bearing children clashes flagrantly with Paul's profound conviction that all human beings are saved only by virtue of the death of Christ. The lame exoneration of Adam (2:13–14) also sits oddly in conjunction with Paul's portrayal in Romans 5:12–21 of Adam as the source of sin and typological representative of sinful humanity.
~ Richard B. Hays
The Avengers have the same unfortunate tendency as ordinary law enforcement. Once we have a perpetrator to hang the crime on, we look no further.
~ Jeff Parker
Wrongful convictions need to be addressed in America. There are a lot of Brian Banks behind bars right now.
~ Brian Banks
Mueller forfeited the opportunity to speak clearly and directly about Trump's crimes, and Barr filled the void with his sycophantic, and high-volume, exoneration.
~ Jeffrey Toobin
I'm absolutely, 100 percent, not guilty.
~ O. J. Simpson
Duress rarely calls out its name. Often it is a mute condition of constraint. Legally it does something else. To claim to be "under duress" in a court of law does not absolve one of a crime or exonerate the fact of one. On the contrary, it admits a culpability—a condition induced by illegitimate pressure. But it is productive, too, of a diminished, burned-out will not to succumb, when one is stripped of the wherewithal to have acted differently or better.
~ Ann Laura Stoler
And that's the mission of The Innocence Project in New York, is to exonerate people who have been wrongfully convicted, and also work from a policy angle with Congress and state legislatures to prevent future wrongful convictions.
~ John Grisham
I set my heart out to prove my innocence by any means necessary.
~ Brian Banks