This seemed to be an easy-to-resolve ambiguity, rather than anything that was going to exculpate anybody. |
No sanction, however, may be imposed unless the member involved has been offered, by written invitation, the occasion to exculpate himself. |
An indictment is valid even if the grand jurors have no knowledge, in voting to indict, that evidence exists that would exculpate the defendant. |
The objective is to determine the truth and uncover all the facts, whether they serve to incriminate or exculpate the accused. |
Therefore it should not be possible for the director to exculpate himself by consent of the company. |
The Crown had to take that statement as a whole so that the version of facts that it contained at once implicated and tended to exculpate the appellant. |