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  2. List of miscarriage of justice cases - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of miscarriage of justice cases.This list includes cases where a convicted individual was later cleared of the crime and either has received an official exoneration, or a consensus exists that the individual was unjustly punished or where a conviction has been quashed and no retrial has taken place, so that the accused is legally assumed innocent.

  3. List of wrongful convictions in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Kern County child abuse cases are a notable example of day-care sex-abuse hysteria of the 1980s. [112] The cases involved claims that a pedophile sex ring performed Satanic ritual abuse: as many as 60 young children testified they had been abused. At least 36 people were convicted and most of them spent years imprisoned. 34 convictions were ...

  4. List of miscarriages of justice - Wikipedia

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  5. Miscarriage of justice - Wikipedia

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    In cases where a large-scale audience is unknowingly witness to a miscarriage of justice, the news-consuming public may develop false beliefs about the nature of crime itself. It may also cause the public to falsely believe that certain types of crime exist, or that certain types of people tend to commit these crimes, or that certain crimes are ...

  6. A Black woman was criminally charged after a miscarriage. It ...

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    The post A Black woman was criminally charged after a miscarriage. It shows the perils of pregnancy post-Roe appeared first on TheGrio. ... “About 20% of the cases get no-billed, (as in) they do ...

  7. List of exonerated death row inmates - Wikipedia

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    The state listed is that in which the conviction occurred, the year is that of release and the case is that which overturned the conviction. This list does not include: Posthumous pardons for individuals executed before 1950. Inmates who were given life sentences when their country, province or state abolished the death penalty.

  8. List of failed and overturned convictions involving the West ...

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    Also included is the later case of Lloyd George Fraser, involving former officers of the squad, where the conviction was quashed because of their involvement. Three others had their convictions quashed in 1985, before the allegations of systemic misconduct were widely accepted (see Tarlochan Singh Gill).

  9. Wrongful execution - Wikipedia

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    Wrongful execution is a miscarriage of justice occurring when an innocent person is put to death by capital punishment. Opponents of capital punishment often cite cases of wrongful execution as arguments, while proponents argue that innocence concerns the credibility of the justice system as a whole and does not solely undermine the use of the death penalty.