Usually means: Wrongful conviction or legal error.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. miscarriage of justice: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. miscarriage of justice: Merriam-Webster
  3. miscarriage of justice: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. miscarriage of justice: Collins English Dictionary
  5. miscarriage of justice: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. miscarriage of justice: Wiktionary
  7. miscarriage of justice: Dictionary.com
  8. Miscarriage of justice: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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  1. miscarriage of justice: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
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  3. miscarriage of justice: Legal dictionary
  4. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

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  1. miscarriage of justice: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (miscarriage of justice)

▸ noun:  (law) 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.

Similar:
miscarriage, misconviction, mistrial, misdirection, error, misprision, mispleading, misfeasance, misdecision, miscarrying, more...

Opposite:
fair trial, acquittal, exoneration

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Similar:
miscarriage, misconviction, mistrial, misdirection, error, misprision, mispleading, misfeasance, misdecision, miscarrying, more...

Opposite:
fair trial, acquittal, exoneration



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