It's possible I might even be wrongfully imprisoned for a crime I didn't commit.
If the crime is related to terrorism, not only might innocent civilians be wrongfully arrested, but they could also find themselves deprived of access to the legal representation that would prove their innocence.
Since valuable business contacts are made at these private social clubs, and business deals are sometimes made on the premises, the exclusion of women and minorities from membership in them might be deemed wrongfully discriminatory and a violation of equality of opportunity.
A Scottish judicial review body ruled in July, 2007, after an investigation lasting nearly four years, that Mr. Megrahi might have been wrongfully convicted and was entitled to appeal the verdict.
But in June 2007, a Scottish judicial review challenged some of that evidence, ruling that he might have been wrongfully convicted and was entitled to appeal the verdict against him.
Daniel Metcalfe, a longtime lawyer at the Justice Department who is representing Mr. Gerlich, said the inspector general's report indicated that as many as 359 applicants for the department's honors and intern program might have been wrongfully rejected in 2006 alone.
Eventually, though, someone will be wrongfully accused or framed, but publicly destroyed anyway.
He waited anxiously for a month, wondering whether he'd be wrongfully arrested.
"Bots are not big server farms, they're individual computers like your own that have been infected by some malware that was wrongfully downloaded -it might be sitting dormant until the botnet operator decides to light your machine up," according to DoubleVerify CEO Wayne Gattinella, whose company helps advertisers and ad platforms weed out fraudulent ad views.
It has repeatedly put an end to federal cases, even when a federal appeals court had good reasons for not wanting to end a case — not wanting to permit a state to execute a death-row inmate who might be innocent or who might have been wrongfully sentenced to death.
