What's the difference between exculpatory and inculpatory?
Exculpatory
Definition:
() Clearing, or tending to clear, from alleged fault or guilt; excusing.
Example Sentences:
(1) If the Government were required to provide full notice of its reasons for placing an individual on the No Fly List and to turn over all evidence (both incriminating and exculpatory) supporting the No Fly determination, the No Fly redress process would place highly sensitive national security information directly in the hands of terrorist organizations and other adversaries,” the assistant director of the FBI’s counterterrorism division, Michael Steinbach, wrote in a declaration to Brown.
(2) Police and prosecutors examine the background of the victim, which, under the American system, means that anything that could prove "exculpatory" for the defense must be turned over to them (such as, occasionally, one's own sexual history).
(3) The point was to yield confessions, even while ignoring potentially exculpatory evidence.
(4) He maintains that other potentially exculpatory evidence has not been made available to his team and may not have been seen by the Guardian.
(5) An analysis is undertaken of these delusional subtypes in terms of their exculpatory effect within the jurisdictions which follow each of the three respective standards of wrongfulness (i.e., the illegality standard, the subjective moral standard, and the objective moral standard).
(6) Likewise the record may be pivotal in determining whether a defense should even be mounted as an alternative to an early settlement, because the failure of meaningful, supportive, or exculpatory documentation raises serious questions about the quality of care rendered.
(7) Guidelines should prove to be useful as either inculpatory or exculpatory evidence of negligence.
(8) Hacked Off itself bows an exculpatory knee to bemused bloggers.
(9) The case was sent for trial at the beginning of 2007 but halted the following year because the prosecutor had failed to disclose potentially exculpatory material.
(10) The past week has seen a mountain of exculpatory rubbish on bank bonuses.
(11) However, the more informative a genetic marker is (i.e., high degree of polymorphisms), the better it is as an exculpatory tool.
(12) Somewhat in contrast to this trend is the presentation of pathological gambling as a potentially exculpatory condition in criminal trials.