wrongly

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Anna, ironically, works for a nonprofit that seeks to exonerate the wrongly convicted.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026

Malkinson, who had been working as a security guard at a local shopping centre at the time of the attack, was wrongly picked out at an identity parade.

From BBC • Jun. 5, 2026

Rightly or wrongly, recent developments have likely alienated the very crowd that constitutes a Tony viewership.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026

BBC News has also seen posts from Tuesday on X in which Grok wrongly identified Hill and Parsons as the officers involved in Nowak's arrest.

From BBC • Jun. 4, 2026

Media coverage of all the innocent people wrongly convicted had an effect on the death-sentencing rate in America, which began to decline in 1999.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson