travesty of justice
Courtroom outcome perversion
A travesty of justice is a legal proceeding or outcome so flawed it mocks the very concept of justice—a wrongful conviction, a biased trial, a sentence grotesquely disproportionate to the offense.
The phrase emphasizes not mere error but fundamental failure: The rushed trial with no defense witnesses was a travesty of justice.
Sometimes used loosely for any perceived unfairness.
- wrongful convictionErroneous guilty verdict
- false confessionUntrue guilt statement
- show trialsPropaganda-driven mock prosecutions
- perjuryCriminal courtroom dishonesty
- obstructionSomething blocking the way
innocent man · misidentification · tainted evidence · kangaroo court · political trials · abuse of power · plea bargain · hung jury · judicial bias · judicial corruption · legal malpractice · exoneration · court of public opinion · compounding · witness tampering · human rights abuse · rush to judgment · misdirection
travesty of justicefair trial
Impartial judicial proceeding
justice served · due process · fair hearing · fair shake · equitable treatment
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Fair treatment under law
justice served · just deserts · poetic justice · righteous judgment · vindication
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