Sentence examples for exculpatory statement from inspiring English sources

The district court's exclusion of a crucial exculpatory statement made under identical conditions and contemporaneously with the inculpatory statement was grossly unfair...

The evidence which the prosecution successfully sought to introduce was not a confession of guilt by respondent, or indeed even an exculpatory statement by respondent, but rather the testimony of a third party who was subjected to no custodial pressures.

After making this exculpatory statement, Comey qualified it by pointing out that Clinton's lawyers, in reviewing whether her e-mails were private or work-related, didn't read all of them.

A spokesman for the Brooklyn district attorney said then that a new prosecutor assigned to the case had realized that information was not in the case records and requested a missing file from the Police Department that included the exculpatory statement.

Jerry Schmetterer, a spokesman for Charles J. Hynes, the district attorney, said that the office learned of the woman's exculpatory statement this month, after a new prosecutor assigned to the case, Rebecca Gingold, saw records of an interview with detectives in which the woman said that Mr. Dula had not raped her.

158, 164, 99 L.Ed. 101, that even where exculpatory statements are voluntary and thus clearly admissible, they require at least the degree of corroboration required of incriminating statements.

Even when crucial evidence is uncovered — witness recantations or exculpatory statements that were ignored by prosecutors — judges, juries and prosecutors often treat it with skepticism.

After news of the exculpatory statements first emerged, Justice John P. Walsh, of State Supreme Court in Brooklyn, ordered Mr. Dula and Mr. Crooks to be released from Rikers Island although they still faced charges at that time.

"In the face of compelling evidence that the vice president was a very active, sophisticated fund-raiser who knew exactly what he was doing, his own exculpatory statements must not be given undue weight," the memorandum said.

As part of the Government's case in chief the District Court admitted evidence of respondent's statements to the court as to his lack of funds. 2 The statements were admitted as false exculpatory statements evincing respondent's consciousness that the bank deposits were incriminating, and as evidence of willfulness in making statements before the grand jury with knowledge of their falsity.

Some commentators understand it broadly, so as to include admissions of criminal behaviour to private parties, admissions to law-enforcement officials not of guilt but of other facts that may link a suspect to a crime, and exculpatory statements (e.g., a self-defense explanation), as well as conduct indicative of guilt (e.g., an attempt to mislead or to flee from police).