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Wrongful in sentence

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But what we do know is that false confessions or admissions were present in approximately 25 percent of wrongful convictions of people later exonerated by DNA evidence.
Of course, if we're just looking at wrongful convictions and exonerations, we're only getting part of the story.
Over the course of the first year, we found about 13 wrongful convictions, people having been in jail for decades, and we released all of them.
For the men in these photographs, the primary cause of their wrongful conviction was mistaken identification.
And I photographed all of the wrongfully convicted at sites that came to particular significance in the history of their wrongful conviction.
I didn't know whether to turn off the set, or file a lawsuit with O.J.'s attorney for wrongful damage to my mental health.
Because it's really clichéd and wrongful.
I kind of think the director may never visit china and just shoot the movie from some wrongful reading or whoever gave the money.
A little further ahead lies a literal ghost town, Sunset Valley, containing flesh-eating undead victims claimed by devil-worshiping ghoul, Bloody Bill(Jeremy Bouvet; whose face is rotted away, his lower lip gone, exposing teeth)who avenged the wrongful lynching of his beloved innocent sister Mary.
After witnessing the wrongful execution of a 'convict' believed to be responsible for the brutal killing of a young girl that occurred years ago.
I read that "The Woods" flopped in the States, mainly due to the audiences wrongful expectations.
Across the country, residents often protest wrongful eviction from their homes, frequently at the hands of corrupt local officials.
So today, instead of asking whether American institutions will survive the Trump presidency, we must ask how American institutions can be put in the service of wrongful ends.
The proposed reforms would make it easier for firms to dismiss employees, decentralize bargaining between employers and workers in small firms (by eliminating sector-level agreements), and introduce a ceiling on indemnity for wrongful dismissal, providing firms relief from the unpredictability of damages awarded through arbitration.
The threats to media freedom in Europe are all too apparent: intimidation, attacks, and murder; legal harassment and wrongful imprisonment; and official controls, criminal libel laws, and intolerable political and commercial pressure on journalists.
However, I believe that the appeal process in the US offers enormous protection, not so much against wrongful conviction as against wrongful execution, so that there are very few, if any, documented cases of innocent people being killed.
But government opponents of all stripes run the risk of censorship, persecution, or wrongful imprisonment.
John J. Armstrong, now the assistant director of operations for US prisons in Iraq, resigned from his previous post when he was named in two wrongful death lawsuits at one of those prisons.