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miscarriage of justice

  1. An unfair decision, especially one in a court of law. For example, Many felt that his being expelled from the school was a miscarriage of justice. This expression, which uses miscarriage in the sense of “making a blunder,” was first recorded in 1875.



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“Parade,” Alfred Uhry and Jason Robert Brown’s 1998 musical about a historic miscarriage of justice involving a Jewish man wrongly accused of murder in the Jim Crow South, was considered a succès d’estime.

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Both the Crown Prosecution Service and Merseyside Police said they appreciated the impact of the miscarriage of justice on Mr Sullivan, but said the technology to get a DNA profile from samples like the ones recovered did not exist until very recently.

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The Miscarriage of Justice Compensation Scheme is separate to any civil legal action that could be brought against any public authority.

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Peter Sullivan is the victim of the longest miscarriage of justice experienced by a living inmate in the UK.

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The only miscarriage of justice that took longer to be acknowledged by the criminal justice system was when Derek Bentley's conviction for murder was overturned in 1998 - and he had been hanged in 1953, a year after he was convicted.

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