The phrase "hold blameless" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when indicating that someone should not be blamed for a particular situation or action.
Example: "In this case, we must hold him blameless for the mistakes made during the project."
Alternatives: "consider innocent" or "exonerate from blame."
Ms. Whelan must be held blameless here, along with the rest of her colleagues.
In a trial concluded last year, the ministers concerned were held blameless even though the facts about the government's response were not in dispute.
But the magazine and Mr. Botsford, whose editing of his wife's manuscript had been called into question by the plaintiff's lawyer, were held blameless.
"Vice President Gore is trying to sweep the military preparedness issue under the rug so he can be held blameless," she said.
It didn't take Eddie Belmonte, the Puerto Rican riding star, long to renew his concentration on Saturday's Kentucky Derby, after being notified at Aque duct yesterday that he had been held "blameless" for a questionable ride on Interwood Wednesday.
He was relieved by the news that Eddie Belmonte, Per sonality's jockey, was held blameless in a disqualification episode on Wednesday, leaving him free to ride in the Bel mont.
Failure to make the rule a priority — in the face of a building boom over the last 15 years in Manhattan — rested with the departmental brass, who had been held blameless to date, union officials said.
But with jury selection nearly complete and opening arguments scheduled for Monday, there is little question that the city's culpability in the 2007 fire will be at issue during the trial, and will form a cornerstone of arguments by the defense lawyers that their clients — Jeffrey Melofchik, Mitchel Alvo, Salvatore DePaola and the John Galt Corporation — should be held blameless.
They're complicit just like he is, because you cannot allow this man to do all this stuff, for all these years, and be held blameless.
Prosecutors generally are reluctant to bring such actions and when they do, juries for many reasons rarely convict, including because police are held blameless so long as they act reasonably.
In a bizarre twist of logic, the Kiev local government has threatened to hold the cinema itself responsible for the arson attack, for not providing enough of its own security to stop the men who started the fire — even while those men are held blameless for their own actions.
