"I was doing it to dig out information that exculpates my client, which is the role of a defense lawyer," he said.
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"A civil verdict that exculpates Rose for the rape will make a future criminal prosecution highly unlikely unless the prosecutor uncovers new evidence of rape that was not presented to the civil jury," Arenella, a professor emeritus at the U.C.L.A. School of Law and a criminal defense lawyer, said before the verdict was announced.
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The ensuing series focuses on the deep, dysfunctional bonds of the Shaikh family: Mushtak, the patriarch, an immigrant from Pakistan who loves Piña Colada-flavored hookah and exculpates his casual racism by telling his children not to disrespect him; Zaynab, the glamorous and unfulfilled mother who has spent her life taking care of her kids but is often baffled by them; Haaris, their son, is trying to get his fledgling art business off the ground while getting his parents to accept his Black girlfriend; and Sana, their daughter, is a newly engaged recent graduate trying to figure out what's next.
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As the day of the proof progresses, the Queen presses for him to be executed while others express doubt, particularly when two parties of gorgeous women ride up. Finally Tryamour arrives and exculpates Launfal on both counts. She breathes on Guenevere and blinds her. Gyfre, now visible, brings his horse Blaunchard, and Tryamour, Launfal, and her ladies ride away to the island of Olyroun, which in Marie's 12th-century version of the tale is Avalon.
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An account of the death is given in William Stevenson's The Revolutionary King, written with the co- operation of King Bhumibol Adulyadej. This account exculpates those executed and suggests that Ananda Mahidol was murdered by Tsuji Masanobu. Masanobu was a former Japanese intelligence officer who had been active in Thailand during the war and, at the time of Ananda Mahidol's death, was hiding out in Thailand for fear of being prosecuted for his war crimes. Stevenson's account is that Ananda Mahidol could not have killed himself, either by suicide or by accident.
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Different accounts of the incident are recorded, but they agree that senior officials wanted Gallienus dead. According to two accounts, the prime conspirator was Aurelius Heraclianus, the Praetorian Prefect. One version of the story tells of Heraclianus bringing Claudius into the plot while the account given by the Historia Augusta exculpates the would-be emperor and adds the prominent general Lucius Aurelius Marcianus into the plot. The removal of Claudius from the conspiracy is due to his later role as the progenitor of the house of Constantine, a fiction of Constantine's time, and may serve to guarantee that the original version from which these two accounts spring was current prior to the reign of Constantine.
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He compared the Canopeans and Shammat to Milton's God and Satan in Paradise Lost, but said that while Lucifer's "overthrow ... of his writerly creator is an awesome thing", in Shikasta Lessing's human race with no free will is too passive and of no interest. Vidal attributed this to Lessing's "surrender" to the Sufis and the SOWF (Substance-Of-We-Feeling), and not her inability to create good characters. New York Times reviewer George Stade said that Shikasta "forces us to think about ... what we are, how we got that way and where we are going", but complained that the book is filled with "false hopes", and that the fate of humankind relies on "theosophical emanations, cosmic influences, occult powers, spiritual visitations and stellar vibrations". When the SOWF is cut off and the Shikastans degenerate, Lessing "both indicts and exculpates" them, implying that humanity is bad, but it is not their fault.
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612 (recte 613): > Bellum Caire Legion ubi sancti occisi sunt (The battle of Caer Legion, in > which holy men were slain) Bede thought this was divine retribution for the Welsh bishops refusing to join Augustine of Canterbury in proselytizing the Saxons. During the English Reformation scholars such as Matthew Parker frequently argued that Augustine himself had been complicit in the battle and the massacre, but this contention swiftly degenerated into a sectarian dispute. The argument relies on the 604 date for the battle found in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle as well as the suggestion that a passage in Bede that specifically exculpates Augustine, which appears in the Latin but not in the early English translation of the text, was a later addition aimed at distancing the churchman from the violence he predicted. The usually accepted dates 615/16 for the battle mitigate this argument, as Augustine is believed to have died in 604.
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