(n.) The plea or mode of defense under which a person on trial for a crime proves or attempts to prove that he was in another place when the alleged act was committed; as, to set up an alibi; to prove an alibi.
Example Sentences:
(1) Last week the prosecution dropped a series of allegations that Gail Sheridan, also 46, had lied on her husband's behalf by providing a series of false alibis to cover up his affairs and trips to Cupids.
(2) It was a time when everybody was looking for alibis, escape clauses, someone to blame, and it coincided with the introduction to this place of hundreds of regulations in order to comply with the directives of Brussels.
(3) Sharma said his client, the younger Singh brother, had been wrongly indentified but did not have an "alibi" because he was not "wealthy", a reference to the practice of paying people to support claims that defendants had been wrongly accused in criminal cases.
(4) As well as Dave, a channel aimed at young men that was formerly known as UK Gold 2, UKTV Drama was rebranded as Alibi, with an emphasis on crime shows.
(5) These reactions are common and some, such as reduced bodily self-esteem, sexual dysfunction and use of the disease as an alibi, are more common in men.
(6) He uses the cross-party Local Government Association (LGA), which represents the larger councils, as an alibi.
(7) Olof Palme murder inquiry takes another twist with revoked alibi Read more The gunman ran off with the murder weapon, leaving the charismatic Social Democratic leader dying in a pool of blood on the pavement.
(8) The only difference then is that what appeared to be an alibi on the one hand, is an excuse on the other.
(9) The ultimate alibi is ignorance – it lies closest to innocence – but if you can’t manage ignorance, craziness does nearly as well.
(10) ‘Please look again’: a torrent of mysterious evidence makes its way to Lathierial Boyd Facebook Twitter Pinterest Boyd had an alibi in a club shooting.
(11) As the head of UKTV , a joint venture between the BBC and Virgin, Abraham presided over a much-lauded re-branding that introduced Dave and Alibi to the world of digital channels.
(12) Animal studies which are not based on the principles of decision theory serve merely as an alibi and may lead to wrong conclusions.
(13) In addition, witnesses were tracked down who gave him a watertight alibi for all but five minutes of the period between Crystal's disappearance and the time of her death.
(14) "With the deal, Netanyahu had a perfect alibi ," wrote Noam Sheizaf.
(15) Gail Sheridan was also tried for perjury for allegedly lying repeatedly to give her husband an alibi, but was cleared after the prosecution dropped all the charges against her during the 12-week trial.
(16) When he gave them the names of the people he had been with over the previous 24 hours as alibis, the officers said they had talked to the individuals who had denied it.
(17) In a bullish testimony, the assistant chief constable, Chris Albiston claimed that Nelson fabricated IRA alibis, worked to a paramilitary agenda, and used her position to gather evidence about RUC officers.
(18) If such a risk cannot be excluded, it is nevertheless necessary to reveal the fallacious antinomy that underlies this controversy and consists in opposing an organic disorder, used as an alibi, to the claim of an utter liberty.
(19) Racism is often justified as an aberrant reaction to understandable provocation; the focus on "multiculturalism" in the aftermath of the Oslo tragedy draws attention to contemporary racism's most elastic alibi.
(20) His sister and her boyfriend vouched for his alibi.
Exculpation
Definition:
(n.) The act of exculpating from alleged fault or crime; that which exculpates; excuse.
Example Sentences:
(1) The introduction in 1968 of the legal concept of Grave Abnormal into the penal code, Development of the Personality Amounting to a Disorder made possible criminal exculpation on the basis of psychosocial maldevelopment.
(2) Some subjects presented a state of psychopathic decompensation of a psychotic level at the moment of the law-breaking act, which accounts for exculpation of this group.
(3) Thus exculpated, he was able, in his own mind, to show off his extravagant talent.
(4) To these assorted exculpations I reply: "Do me a favour, love!"
(5) However, by attempting to limit the admission of liability to the two years between 2004 and 2006 – and by so doing effectively sacrificing two senior executives and former editor Andy Coulson – she appears to be trying to exculpate herself from the scandal."
(6) Even the patient's own repeated request does not exculp the doctor if he directly acts to end the life of the patient before the disease has run its natural course (sections 77, 78 StGB).
(7) It is unethical and irresponsible to not tell the patient experiments are being conducted on him, to charge the patient to perform research on him, or to ask the patient to sign an informed consent aimed at exculpating the doctor rather than protecting the patient.
(8) In most such cases, exculpation is based primarily on the specific content of their delusions and how it comports with the law of the jurisdiction specific content of their delusions and how it comports with the law of the jurisdiction in which the act was committed (the lex loci delicti commissi).
(9) That‘s what grates you isn’t it, that the company’s shopped you?” Pharo replied: “No, what really grates me is that the company has provided a fraction of the evidence in this case and we fitted the bill.” Wright asked him how these missing emails could exculpate him, suggesting they were a “smoke screen” in his trial.
(10) The 1992 decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in the case of Foucha v. Louisiana, holding that the Constitution does not permit the continued confinement of a still dangerous, but no longer mentally ill, insanity acquittee, makes it all the more necessary that the insanity defense be abolished and that an offender's mental illness be considered primarily in the context of mitigation, disposition and sentencing, rather than exculpation.
(11) Nor had he provided his understrappers with any lines of defence, any excuses or exculpation for a decision that went against everything he had declared in the past few months.
(12) In order for an impairment of understanding or of self-control to exculpate, the offence must be causally connected with the impairment in question.
(13) What a farrago of self-regarding, self-congratulatory self-exculpation it was!
(14) This formulation permits the defendant possessed of mere surface knowledge or cognition to be exculpated, requiring that he have a deeper affective appreciation of the legal and moral import of the conduct involved if he is to be held criminally responsible.
(15) Yes, of course we need to focus on that but it should in no way exculpate the people who have done this, the criminals and scumbags responsible for terrorist atrocities in our country and around the world.” On BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour, Rudd also said the report had never been intended to be shared publicly.
(16) Those who died during hospitalisation, were fully exculpated more often than those who survived at the end of their term; furthermore, they had served their sentences on the average for a longer time than the survivors.
(17) The rationale of exculpation in general, which applies also to the case of mental illness, is that the offence does not indicate a morally bad attitude in the offender.
(18) The former solicitor general added: "The current issue surely is should somebody be investigating something in which their brother has been named, however he may in due course be exculpated?
(19) No other executive said anything remotely designed to exculpate her.
(20) Although delusions are prima facie evidence of psychosis, their mere presence is not a sufficient condition for exculpation on the grounds of insanity.