(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.
Justification
Definition:
(n.) The act of justifying or the state of being justified; a showing or proving to be just or conformable to law, justice, right, or duty; defense; vindication; support; as, arguments in justification of the prisoner's conduct; his disobedience admits justification.
(n.) The showing in court of a sufficient lawful reason why a party charged or accused did that for which he is called to answer.
(n.) The act of justifying, or the state of being justified, in respect to God's requirements.
(n.) Adjustment of type by spacing it so as to make it exactly fill a line, or of a cut so as to hold it in the right place; also, the leads, quads, etc., used for making such adjustment.
Example Sentences:
(1) "We do not yet live in a society where the police or any other officers of the law are entitled to detain people without reasonable justification and demand their papers," Gardiner wrote.
(2) Considerations of different ways of obtaining informed consent, determining ways of minimizing harm, and justifications for violating the therapeutic obligation are discussed but found unsatisfactory in many respects.
(3) Although Menzies, et al., report that survival rates are higher than previously expected and that in most cases the children's and parents' lives appear not to be excessively burdensome, the Working Group contends that there "continues to be ethical justification for selective treatment" of such newborns.
(4) Financial reasons were given as the main justification for leaving government service.
(5) What has confused debate about the legal basis for targeted killings is that the UK’s permanent representative at the UN has given an alternative justification, explaining that the attack was justified by the right of collective self-defence of Iraq – a conflict the UK is supporting at the request of the Baghdad government.
(6) This seems to be little more than the existing defence of justification under a new name.
(7) There is little justification for strikes in general, still less for doctors' strikes, he claims.
(8) Scandinavian forensic psychiatrists, lawyers and criminologists have analyzed and discussed the present situation and have found that there is still a need and justification for forensic psychiatry.
(9) An important source of failure in markets and justification for government intervention in the health sector of LDCs is imperfect information.
(10) Phylogenetic and ontogenetic justifications for this organization are adduced.
(11) This paper challenges the present policy on two grounds: consent from adults who donate kidneys is generally not informed, and therefore it is inconsistent to use the consent requirement as a justification for excluding children; and renal donation by adults can be seen as a procedure done for the benefit of the donor (as well as the recipient), and the appropriate rules for using children as donors should therefore be those pertaining to beneficial intrusions on nonconsenting subjects.
(12) Up to now, to interpret antibiotic susceptibility tests, the common practice has been to use: first, breakpoints without any quantitative justification, secondly, concordance curves between the different measurement techniques; these are not well adapted to the heterogeneous character of bacterial populations.
(13) Things only got worse in 1998 when Russia defaulted on its loans: the people of this area once again lost what little they had saved, and the oligarchs just got richer, in yet more deals that Russians perceived, with some justification, to have been brokered by the west.
(14) In these countries, however, a question has risen as to priority and justification for developing neonatal intensive care.
(15) In an increasingly digital society, the justification for opacity in trade negotiations has met its demise, and it's time that we see modern legal instruments negotiated in a transparent and inclusive manner in order to get the best outcome for our country.
(16) But there is absolutely no justification for this type of senseless violence."
(17) Despite uncertainties and differences in interpretation of various cancer studies, there is ample justification for public health measures now in place or proposed, such as restriction or elimination of smoking in the workplace and in public places.
(18) The presence of a field change, affecting epidermal melanocytes in the skin surrounding melanomas, has been cited as a justification for performing radical excision of these lesions.
(19) The justification for its use is not always as clear as one might hope.
(20) 3.06pm BST More scientific reaction Ken Collins, a senior research fellow at the University of Southampton, said there was no justification for using lethal methods for researching whales.