This is a list of miscarriage of justice cases. This list includes cases where a convicted individual was later cleared of the crime and either has received an official exoneration, or a consensus exists that the individual was unjustly punished or where a conviction has been quashed and no retrial has taken place, so that the accused is legally assumed innocent. This list is not exhaustive. Crime descriptions with an asterisk indicate that the events were later determined not to be criminal acts.
List of cases
Argentina
Armenia
Australia
Brazil
Canada
China
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Iceland
Iran
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Japan
Mexico
Netherlands
New Zealand
Nicaragua
Norway
Poland
Romania
South Africa
South Korea
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Taiwan
Uganda
United Kingdom
United States
Due to the high number of documented notable wrongful conviction entries for the United States, the list can be viewed via the main article.
Vietnam
See also
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Prosecutorial misconduct
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Exculpatory evidence
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Innocence Project
Innocence Project, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit legal organization that is committed to exonerating individuals who have been wrongly convicted, through the use of DNA testing and working to reform the criminal justice system to prevent futu ...
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Race in the United States criminal justice system
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Capital punishment in the United States
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Innocent prisoner's dilemma
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Miscarriage of justice
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False confession
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Overturned convictions in the United States
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Capital punishment debate in the United States The debate over capital punishment in the United States existed as early as the colonial period. As of April 2022, it remains a legal penalty within 27 states, the federal government, and military criminal justice systems. The states of Colorado, D ...
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List of exonerated death row inmates
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Wrongful execution
Wrongful execution is a miscarriage of justice occurring when an innocent person is put to death by capital punishment. Cases of wrongful execution are cited as an argument by opponents of capital punishment, while proponents say that the argu ...
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Maurice Hastings
References
Notes
Further reading
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Jed S. Rakoff, "Jailed by Bad Science", ''
The New York Review of Books'', vol. LXVI, no. 20 (December 19, 2019), pp. 79–80, 85. According to Judge Rakoff (p. 85), "forensic techniques that in their origin were simply viewed as aids to police investigations have taken on an importance in the criminal justice system that they frequently cannot support. Their results are portrayed... as possessing a degree of validity and reliability that they simply do not have." Rakoff commends (p. 85) the U.S.
National Academy of Sciences recommendation to "creat
an independent National Institute of Forensic Science to do the basic testing and promulgate the basic standards that would make forensic science much more genuinely scientific".
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People wrongfully convicted of murder
People wrongfully convicted of rape