"erroneous sentence" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe an incorrect sentence, often in a discussion about grammar. For example, "The sentence 'I not going to the store' is an erroneous sentence."
He made his motion under a federal law, Section 2255, which authorizes federal inmates to seek correction of erroneous sentences.
Because the prosecution sought the death penalty, Crittenden asserted that if the jury rendered an erroneous conviction, they would have no peace of mind knowing they had sentenced an innocent man to hang.
In seeking resentencing, Mr. Burton has the legal burden of demonstrating to the appeals court not only that his sentence was erroneous, but that he was actually harmed by the error.
Her statistical studies have shown, for example, that having stereotypically black facial features correlates with tougher jury verdicts, longer prison terms, more death sentences and erroneous identifications by police.
Epochs with erroneous judgments or responses (correct sentences judged as unacceptable, incorrect sentences judged as acceptable, or incorrect verbal reports in Task 2) were also eliminated.
The erroneous comma after "fields" makes the sentence difficult to decipher.
These include the sentence "This practice is based is erroneous", and the passage "I suppose that in some cases in prestigious journals".
This latter sentence refers to a widely cited but erroneous interpretation of case law, which we have discussed previously [ 44].
Legal commentators may criticize this as judicial activism, but that misses what is truly important: thousands of Americans are serving sentences in federal prisons based on an erroneous assumption about public safety that Congress has now explicitly and overwhelmingly repudiated.
This value was chosen so that any sentence decodings with more than 50% error rate would be considered nearly completely erroneous (see Figure 9).
