convict wrongly

Frequency: 6.89.2 per million words

To declare someone to be guilty of a criminal offense in a court of law, when they are innocent.

wronglyVERB + wrongly

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Examples (10)

  • He was wrongly convicted and spent years in prison for a crime he didn't commit.
  • The documentary exposed how several innocent people were wrongly convicted in the 1980s.
  • Legal reforms aim to prevent future cases where individuals might be wrongly convicted.
  • The jury's decision to wrongly convict the suspect led to public outrage.
  • It is a grave injustice when someone is wrongly convicted by the legal system.
  • Advocacy groups work tirelessly to free those who have been wrongly convicted.
  • The new evidence proved that the defendant had been wrongly convicted.
  • No one should ever be wrongly convicted based on circumstantial evidence alone.
  • The judge expressed regret for the possibility that the man might have been wrongly convicted.
  • His family fought for decades to clear his name after he was wrongly convicted.