The phrase "exculpatory for" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in legal contexts to describe evidence or arguments that serve to clear someone of blame or guilt.
Example: "The new evidence presented was exculpatory for the defendant, proving his innocence in the case."
Alternatives: "clearing of blame" or "innocent of charges."
Art forgery is among the least despised of crimes, except by its victims — the identity of those victims being more than exculpatory, for many people.
Trump's attorney Rudy Giuliani, Noah noted, told Fox News' Laura Ingraham he believes the tape is actually exculpatory for the president.
Mark R. Godburn North Canaan, Conn., Nov. 4, 2010 To the Editor: It is convenient, perhaps even correct, and certainly exculpatory for Democrats to blame President Obama for the disastrous midterm election results.
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).
Clarification: The U.S. Attorney's Office in S.D.N.Y. has objected to this article, and asked that it further clarify that Judge Katherine B. Forrest ruled that these events outlined above were not exculpatory for Ross Ulbricht.
Spacey's attorney Alan Jackson said there is data that is "likely exculpatory" for Spacey.
But this does not stop his data from lending exculpatory explanations for fat tummies more credence.
Mr. Cohen did offer one important piece of exculpatory information for the president.
But Black, attempting a reconsideration of his subject, merely provides an exculpatory gloss for seemingly every grimy facet of Nixon's career.
Federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York claim that Veselnitskaya collaborated with a lawyer in the Russian prosecutor's office to draft exculpatory documents for Prevezon.
Mr. Moussaoui's lawyers had hoped that records of the interrogations might provide exculpatory evidence for Mr. Moussaoui — showing that the Al Qaeda detainees did not know Mr. Moussaoui and clearing him of involvement in the Sept. 11, 2001, plot.
