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  1. miscarriage of justicenoun

    An error at a trial which led to an unjust outcome, such as the conviction of a person for a crime they did not commit.

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  1. Miscarriage of Justice

    The ninth season of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation premiered on CBS on October 9, 2008, and ended May 14, 2009. The series stars William Petersen, Marg Helgenberger and Laurence Fishburne.

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  1. Miscarriage of justice

    A miscarriage of justice primarily is the conviction and punishment of a person for a crime they did not commit. The term can also apply to errors in the other direction—"errors of impunity", and to civil cases. Most criminal justice systems have some means to overturn, or "quash", a wrongful conviction, but this is often difficult to achieve. In some instances a wrongful conviction is not overturned for several years, or until after the innocent person has been executed, released from custody or died. "Miscarriage of justice" is sometimes synonymous with wrongful conviction, referring to a conviction reached in an unfair or disputed trial. Wrongful convictions are frequently cited by death penalty opponents as cause to eliminate death penalties to avoid executing innocent persons. In recent years, DNA evidence has been used to clear many people falsely convicted. While a miscarriage of justice is a Type I error for falsely identifying culpability, an error of impunity would be a Type II error of failing to find a culpable person guilty. However, the term "miscarriage of justice" is often used to describe the latter type as well. The Scandinavian languages have a word, the Swedish variant of which is justitiemord, which literally translates as "justice murder." The term exists in several languages and was originally used for cases where the accused was convicted, executed, and later cleared after death. With capital punishment decreasing, the expression has acquired an extended meaning, namely any conviction for a crime not committed by the convicted. The retention of the term "murder" represents both universal abhorrence against wrongful convictions and awareness of how destructive wrongful convictions are. Some Slavic languages have also the word which literally translates as "justice murder", but it is used for Judicial murder, while miscarriage of justice is "justiční omyl" in Czech, implying an error of the justice system, not a deliberate manipulation.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of miscarriage of justice in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of miscarriage of justice in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of miscarriage of justice in a Sentence

  1. Brian Kammer:

    Today, the court has unconscionably allowed a grotesque miscarriage of justice to occur in Georgia, the intellectual disability community, which has strongly supported Mr. Hill's case for many years, joined his legal team in the belief that the Supreme Court would step in and prevent Georgia's flagrant disregard of the Constitution on behalf of the rights of people with disabilities.

  2. Donald Trump:

    The real crimes were on the other side, as nothing happens to them. Can not allow this miscarriage of justice !

  3. Matthew Heimbach:

    This is clearly a political prosecution, and it's a miscarriage of justice, i'm not surprised we have a biased system that favors violent and radical leftists instead of holding up justice for everyone.

  4. Nurul Izzah:

    A pardon based on a miscarriage of justice, a separation met with an eventual embrace, we have got much to do, many more injustices to fight.

  5. State Senator Raymond Lesniak:

    This miscarriage of justice will not stand, judge Hogan has denied the public its right to appeal the biggest environmental contamination case in the history of the state.

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