recantation

Admit the worldview is wrong and he was mistaken, then hold that view publicly and without recantation for a reasonable sum of time.

That account may be an oral recantation or DNA you provide as part of the investigation.

If she did, what were the reasons to believe her recantation over her accusation?

I'm not sure what the circumstances of the recantation was but it's a very serious thing to say of course.

Is it because he did rape her, this recantation is a lie, and they just want the focus off this topic as soon as possible?

The case was eventually thrown out of court, and a mealy-mouthed NYT recantation was issued (linked in OP - it's a typical NYT non-retraction retraction).

That it's always open to recantation or refutation or questioning.

I wonder if he's going to write a recantation of the 2020 post that's an extended fellatio session on Elon Musk next.

Western companies operating in China want the recantation.

Contrast this with the clear evidence of conflicts of interests from the US judges, the bribing of the oil company's star witness and their eventual recantation of some of their testimony.

I don't have a reference, but I vaguely recall something that, if not an official recantation, was akin to the general sentiment of backpeddling from the original stance, although I may be misremembering.

Perhaps the girlfriend had a written recantation, or came to a mutual understanding, or a psychological assessment was conducted, or it was discovered she was the instigator; we wouldn’t know, it’s sealed.

He then recanted his recantation, but admitted to a journalist that “It’s very possible I misunderstood what [Willingham] said.” Mr Webb also testified that he was promised no benefit in exchange for his testimony.

This conversion was a devastating blow to his followers and essentially a public "recantation" of his messianic claim, though not necessarily an admission of it being a lie on his part as much as a desperate act to save his life.

Holy crap: > “Whenever I had any doubts that something happened, I was told by the therapist that this was because I had multiple personalities, that my dad had programmed me this way,” Parker said the court record of his recantation.