wrongfully convicted
Falsely found guilty
Wrongfully convicted describes someone found guilty of a crime they did not commit.
The conviction may result from mistaken eyewitness identification, false confession, prosecutorial misconduct, or flawed forensic evidence.
DNA testing has exonerated many wrongfully convicted prisoners decades after their trials: He spent eighteen years in prison before being proven wrongfully convicted.
- innocentFree from moral wrong
- imprisonedHeld in custody
- behind barsIn jail
- death rowHousing for condemned prisoners
- DNAHereditary code molecule
evidence · injustice · justice system · prison · life sentence · appeal · new trial · overturned · false confession · cleared · testimony · witness · confession · plea deal · coerced · prosecutor · trial · sentence
- captivesprisoner, captive, inmate, detainee, hostage
- prisonersprisoners, inmates, felons, jailbirds, lifers
- ex-prisonersex-con, parolee, time served, conditional release, supervised release
wrong, wrongful, wrongfully, wrongly, wrongness, wronged, wronging, wrongs, wrongdoing