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Recent Examples of wrongful The reforms imposed new requirements on prosecutors to turn over evidence to defendants more quickly during pretrial periods, and supporters have said the old system contributed to wrongful convictions, mass incarceration and case delays. Josephine Stratman, New York Daily News, 14 Jan. 2025 He’s been trying, throughout Juror #2, to thread the impossible needle of preventing a wrongful conviction without taking any responsibility. A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 13 Jan. 2025 In September, one of those actors, Velazquez, was exonerated of his wrongful murder conviction after serving nearly 24 years in prison. Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 13 Jan. 2025 Drawing parallels with current cases of wrongful convictions. Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 12 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for wrongful 
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  • There is nothing sudden or unexpected about unlawful immigration at the southern border.
    Elizabeth Goitein, TIME, 23 Jan. 2025
  • He was charged with second-degree assault, first-degree reckless endangerment and unlawful discharge.
    Staff report, Hartford Courant, 23 Jan. 2025
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  • Official fireworks shows took place over the city, and illegal pyrotechnics lit up the sky everywhere in between.
    Lisa Beebe, Los Angeles Magazine, 5 July 2017
  • Louisville police say anything that goes into the air or explodes is illegal for average citizens.
    James Bruggers, The Courier-Journal, 5 July 2017
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  • These can all make great rivals for the criminal mastermind gangs as well.
    Rob Wieland, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2025
  • In its latest analysis of the situation in Haiti, the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime said that a peacekeeping operation alone will not solve Haiti’s gang problem and the structures that support the criminal groups.
    Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 18 Jan. 2025
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  • Throughout the Biden administration, Cuba has worked with U.S. law enforcement – primarily through its engagement with the FBI as well as through the multilateral body Financial Action Task Force – to combat illicit financing, including the funding of terrorism.
    Jason M. Blazakis, The Conversation, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Though police and prosecutors in at least two counties have joined forces to aggressively tackle the illicit drug together, few agencies in the rest of the region have made investigating fentanyl deaths a priority, the Star found.
    Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 16 Jan. 2025
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  • Walter went to trial again on Oct. 11, 2011, facing the same judge and the same charges of felonious assault and involuntary manslaughter.
    Emily Blackwood, People.com, 10 Jan. 2025
  • He was indicted in July and previously faced two counts of felonious assault and four counts of endangering children.
    Bailey Richards, People.com, 29 Dec. 2024

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“Wrongful.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wrongful. Accessed 29 Jan. 2025.

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