In 1998, a jury in Dutchess County decided that Mr. Maddox, the Rev. Al Sharpton, C. Vernon Mason and Ms. Brawley had defamed Mr. Pagones by wrongly accusing him of being one of a group of men who abducted and raped Ms. Brawley over several days in 1987.
5 March 2012: The natural father of Baby Peter, known as KC, is awarded £75,000 in damages after the publishers of The People wrongly accused him of being a sex offender.
Now that Lundgren is going to prison it seems reasonable to say that his imprisonment is as much a Microsoft product as the OS it accused him wrongly of pirating.
He claims he was forced to flee Corsica in the 1990s to escape disputes between nationalist leaders who wrongly suspected him of embezzling part of the "blood money" disbursed by the French government (bundles of cash spread evenly between rival independence organizations to buy peace prior to ministerial visits).
Mr. Trulock has sued Dr. Lee and two Energy Department investigators who, Mr. Trulock said, had wrongly accused him of singling out Dr. Lee for investigation because of his Chinese ancestry.
Then Richard loses his job and believes that it's because his bosses suspected him, albeit wrongly, of taking part in the march.
Bob Dowler, Milly's father, was subject to hostile cross-examination during the trial of his daughter's killer, Levi Bellfield, after police had initially – and wrongly – suspected him of the killing.
Mr. Heymann sued the publisher, Penguin Books, in the High Court of Justice, saying the book wrongly accused him of "serious business malpractices" based on false statements.
He had grown frustrated with a delay in publication, and was upset by a piece in the Sunday Mirror which wrongly accused him of being a hoaxer.
John Lynch, a brooding actor who exudes sadness from every pore, plays a Warrington factory worker whose two small children are taken away from him when over-zealous teachers and social workers wrongly suspect him of sexual abuse.
