Its subsidiary Database Technologies was hired by the state to overhaul its electoral registration lists - and ended up wrongly leading to the disenfranchising of thousands of voters, whose votes might have led to a different result.
You may think that if you're innocent you don't need a lawyer, but that's the kind of naivety that could see you ending up wrongly convicted while the one-armed man responsible goes free.
When the hunt was on for the killer of Rachel Nickell on Wimbledon Common in 1992, detectives took advice from a psychological profiler, went up a blind alley and ended up wrongly accusing Colin Stagg with the crime.
After site members, known as Redditors, turned into amateur sleuths and ended up wrongly identifying several people as possible suspects, Reddit went from a font of crowdsourced information to a purveyor of false accusations, to the subject of a reprimand by the president of the United States himself, to the center of another furious debate about the responsibilities of digital media.
Ultimately, she ended up wrongly accusing Driscoll of talking during the interview and insulting her by hanging up, which he did not apparently do.
If a defendant is given less credibility than she deserves, she may end up being wrongly judged guilty.
He could end up serving 15 years in prison rather than 27 months for possession of a firearm because the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit wrongly categorized 20-year-old crimes as violent felonies.
For example, a placement test which fails to get the best out of students would end up streaming them wrongly and as a result would impair their future; or in case of a career-based test, the result would be rejection of deserving students which is a loss for employers and employees.
Because the majority of your Twitter traffic is hidden as direct traffic you might end up sensibly but wrongly focusing on the 5% that has come via Facebook.com, thus reworking your strategy to put more effort into Facebook despite the fact it is actually performing poorly in comparison to Twitter.
