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Exonerated
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Exoneration.
The term "exoneration" also is used in civil and nonlegal circumstances to indicate that a person once believed to have engaged in wrongdoing has been demonstrated not to have so engaged; and in criminal law to indicate a surety, i.e. bail bond has been satisfied, completed, and exonerated. In the latter case, the judge orders the bond exonerated; the clerk of court time stamps the original bail bond power and indicates exonerated as the judicial order.