The word "wrongful" is correct and can be used in written English
It is an adjective that describes an action or deed that is contrary to moral or ethical standards (i.e. wrong). An example sentence would be: "The judge ruled that the defendant had committed a wrongful act that caused harm to the plaintiff."
See articlePaying for wrong decisionsRenault's chief operating officer stepped down over a scandal surrounding wrongful accusations of corporate espionage.
Based on the true story of the wrongful conviction of black boxer Rubin Carter, the film has been criticised for bending the facts, which may have damaged its chances, but its star, Denzel Washington, appears in the best actor category.
The facility was even unknown to Rob Warden, the founder of Northwestern University Law School's Center on Wrongful Convictions, until the Guardian informed him of the allegations of clients who vanish into inherently coercive police custody.
On the court docket, the case is merely a wrongful dismissal suit.
In that ruling the nation's highest judicial panel noted that intellectual disability placed prisoners at "special risk of wrongful execution".
Following the exile of Captain Alfred Dreyfus after his wrongful conviction for spying for Germany against France, his wife, Lucie, was portrayed as a bourgeois heroine, the epitome of the dutiful Victorian spouse.
The wrongful-conviction examination into Zuley follows an extraordinary 2013 decision by state's attorney Anita Alvarez to free an innocent man Zuley's faulty police work sent to prison for 23 years.
On Tuesday, papers filed in federal court showed that the conviction-integrity unit of the Cook County state's attorney is interested in examining civilian complaints against Zuley related to another wrongful-conviction case.
His family won a wrongful-death suit in 2004 against their babysitter's boyfriend, a suspect now in jail for sexually assaulting two boys, though never charged with Etan's disappearance.
A more important change, says Kazuko Ito, a lawyer specialising in wrongful-conviction cases, would oblige prosecutors to disclose any mitigating evidence.
On that day, the wrongful-death civil lawsuit gets underway in a district court in Waco.
