Sentence examples for falsely convicted from inspiring English sources

Twenty people were falsely convicted.

You've been falsely convicted of theft!

The Scottsboro Boys is based on a true story – nine black teenagers in Alabama in 1931 falsely convicted of rape.

Bardot is a filmic counterpart to Beauvoir herself, the Socrates of St. Tropez who is falsely convicted of "corrupting the youth of France".

Degas, a painter often praised for his warmth and humanity, was also an anti-Semite and a staunch defender of the French court that falsely convicted Alfred Dreyfus.

(For the record, Mr. Azbarov said he was falsely convicted; he said a corrupt regional police chief had set him up).

Meanwhile, the fight for justice for miners falsely convicted of wrongdoing by a politically motivated police force during the 1984/85 miners' strike goes on.

Behind the campaigning numbers were 18 innocent people who collectively spent scores of years in British jails after being falsely convicted of terrorism offences.

Since 1973, 152 people on death row have been exonerated, and a 2014 study found that 4% of death row inmates are falsely convicted.

Gerry Conlon, falsely convicted of the Guildford and Woolwich pub bombings, has also talked of breakdowns, attempted suicide and struggles with addiction after 15 years in prison.

Long was falsely convicted of the murder of a 14-year-old boy in Deptford, south London, but was not freed until 1995, 16 years after his arrest.