wrongly convict
Frequency: 6.44.0 per million words
To declare someone guilty of a crime by mistake.
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- New evidence suggests the man was wrongly convicted of the robbery.
- The justice system must have safeguards to avoid wrongly convicting innocent people.
- The jury wrongly convicted him based on flimsy evidence.
- He spent twenty years in prison after being wrongly convicted, all because of a false testimony.
- There's a real danger that the court will wrongly convict her without a proper defense.
- Being wrongly convicted can destroy a person's life and reputation.
- The appeal was based on the claim that the trial judge had allowed evidence that led the jury to wrongly convict the defendant.
- If that key witness had lied, they would have wrongly convicted an innocent man.
- Campaigners are fighting to overturn the cases of those they believe were wrongly convicted.
- How many people are wrongly convicted each year due to flawed forensic science?