Conviction vs Exoneration - What's the difference?
conviction | exoneration |
(countable) A firmly held belief.
(countable) A judgement of guilt in a court of law.
* {{quote-news
, year=2011
, date=December 14
, author=Steven Morris
, title=Devon woman jailed for 168 days for killing kitten in microwave
, work=Guardian
(uncountable) The state of being found or proved guilty.
(uncountable) The state of being convinced.
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An act of disburdening, discharging, or freeing morally from a charge or imputation
*{{quote-news, year=2007, date=May 14, author=Patrick Mcgeehan, title=New York Plan for DNA Data in Most Crimes, work=New York Times
, passage=Mr. Spitzer’s proposal also calls for the creation of a state office that would be responsible for studying all cases that resulted in exonerations and looking for flaws in the system that led to those wrongful convictions. }}
(uncountable) The state of being disburdened or freed from a charge.
As nouns the difference between conviction and exoneration
is that conviction is (countable) a firmly held belief while exoneration is exoneration.conviction
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- The visitors were being pinned back by the end of the first half. Yet Gordon Strachan's side played with great conviction and always had a chance of springing a surprise when their opponents were so susceptible at the back.
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* See alsoexoneration
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