David Baldacci

As a lawyer, as a private citizen, you see a lot of injustice. You see a lot of people who should have been punished and are not, and people who were punished wrongfully are not vindicated. Fiction is sort of a way to set the record straight, and let people at least believe that justice can be achieved and the right outcomes can occur.

American Novelist

Brian Banks

You have to realize that myself and others that have been wrongfully convicted of crimes, we've dealt with the situation. You realize that you're not going to survive in prison or progress as a human being if you allow yourself to continue to hold on to this negative energy.

American Athlete

Peter Benenson

Torture is banned but in two-thirds of the world's countries it is still being committed in secret. Too many governments still allow wrongful imprisonment, murder or 'disappearance' to be carried out by their officials with impunity.

British Lawyer

Amy J. Berg

I just think it's so outrageous that fifteen years is the kind of minimum amount of time that any wrongfully convicted person spends in prison.

American Director

Amanda Knox

All wrongfully convicted people are portrayed as monsters. But there's a special kind of monster that is a woman.

American Educator

Glenn Greenwald

The purpose of whistleblowing is to expose secret and wrongful acts by those in power in order to enable reform.

American Journalist

Nnamdi Asomugha

I think any time you're able to humanize the plight of the wrongfully incarcerated, then you're doing your job.

Nigerian Actor

Juan Guaido

We know that Maduro's armies are riddled with persecution, torture, threats, and wrongful arrests.

Venezuelan Politician

Jared Polis

Someone who is wrongfully accused needs to do their best to put it behind them and move on.

American Politician

Jose Marti

He who uses the office he owes to the voters wrongfully and against them is a thief.

Cuban Activist

Using 'wrongful' suggests a strong disapproval of the action described.

Negative Implications

'Wrongful' often implies an action goes against the law or justice.

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Emotional Weight

Understand 'wrongful' as suggesting someone's legal rights were infringed.

Legal Context

'Wrongful' in legal terms often deals with the loss of someone's rightful benefits.

Rights Removal

The term is commonly used in law to refer to specific types of legal wrongs.

Specific Legal Actions

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 false positives can have real negative consequences. False positives in medical testing are preferable to false negatives, but they can still lead to stress or unnecessary treatment. And false positives in mass surveillance can cause innocent people to be wrongfully arrested, jailed, or worse.

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 So I said yes. A conviction review unit is essentially a unit in a prosecutor's office where prosecutors look at their past cases to determine whether or not they made mistakes. Over the course of the first year, we found about 13 wrongful convictions,

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 It turns out that the crime rate goes up and down irrespective of how many young people we send to prison. We tend to think about justice in a pretty narrow good and bad, innocent and guilty. Injustice is about being wrongfully convicted.

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 I investigate photography's ability to blur truth and fiction, and its influence on memory, which can lead to severe, even lethal consequences. For the men in these photographs, the primary cause of their wrongful conviction

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 First of all, we have all the statistical analyses from the Innocence Project work, where we know that we have, what, 250, 280 documented cases now where people have been wrongfully convicted and subsequently exonerated,

Scott Fraser: The...

 In one study of exonerations, for example, only eight percent of adults had falsely confessed, but 42 percent of juveniles had done so. Of course, if we're just looking at wrongful convictions and exonerations,

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 Father of two, family man, truck driver and someone who was wrongfully charged with a gang-related murder he was totally innocent of, but was facing a life sentence. Ramon's family came to those meetings

Community-powered...

 When I say "do no harm," I do not mean that we should not explore bold and courageous solutions. We desperately need to be innovative in the face of crisis. But there is a lot of bad, wrongful,

Shweta Narayan: It's...

 receives a lesser sentence than other people who commit wrongful killings. But because I'm a law professor, I also worried about the law itself.

Wrongful

Done in an unfair or illegal way.

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Unlawfully or unjustly taking someone else's rights.

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