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The character has been [['''Acquitted Too Late]]'''.

== Anime &and Manga ==

* A nasty example (I've forgotten the book){{verify}} where the police were stumped in a case of an extremely horrific serial killer and so arrested a suspect just so it looked as if they were keeping busy. Unfortunately they forgot to pass this info down to the prison wardens so they stood by and tolerated gang rape of the accused, resulting in him committing suicide.

* In the ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]'' book series, Sirius Black had been sent to Azkaban for crimes he didn't commit and wasn't allowed to have a trial. He didn't live long enough to see the real culprit being exposed.

** Within ''[[Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Franchisenovel)/|Harry Potter and Thethe Half-Blood Prince|Harry Potter]]'', we learn that Voldemort had his uncle framed and incarcerated for his murder of [[Self-Made Orphan|his muggle father and grandparents]]. When Dumbledore found evidence indicating the truth, he tried to get the conviction overturned, but Voldemort's uncle died in prison before the ministry reached their decision.

* In one episode of the show ''[[In Justice]]'', a gentle retarded man was arrested for an unsolved murder, and sentenced to death. It's never made clear, but the strong suggestion is that he's innocent. His lawyers try every last-minute appeal they can think of to delay his execution and they fail. He dies on schedule, and the episode -- andepisode—and the case, presumably -- ispresumably—is closed.

** Others would argue that even if this trope has only been [[Truth in Television]] '''''once''''' in the entire history of the United States, that one time is far too many times. Indeed, the utilitarian philosopher [[John Stuart Mill]] put forward that this is the ''main'' reason that one should oppose the death penalty, if one does so. He expends a great deal of ink dismissing with cold precision and thoroughness all kinds of arguments against the death penalty--exceptpenalty—except this one. The fact that we cannot be ''certain'' of any condemned person's innocence means that we necessarily run the risk of killing an innocent person--andperson—and it's hard to think of anything worse than that other than variations on that theme (e.g. ''torturously'' killing an innocent person, killing ''a large number of'' innocent persons, etc.).

* On April 19, 1989, a young woman was viciously attacked in Central Park--rapedPark—raped, beaten, and left for dead. Five teenagers who had been harassing other people in the park that evening were soon arrested and charged with the crime. Despite no DNA evidence, no identification made by the victim (she survived, but could not recall the attack in detail), and most damning, a time frame that showed that the boys could NOT have attacked the woman--ironicallywoman—ironically, because they were attacking someone else at the time--alltime—all were convicted. A little over a decade later, a man serving a life sentence for another crime confessed that ''he'' had attacked the jogger, and that he'd done so alone. Only one of the five was still in prison while the rest had served their time and been released. Despite their convictions being overturned, it is their unanimous belief that entire experience has ruined their lives. Adding insult to injury, the statute of limitations has expired, meaning that the real perpetrator of one of the most notorious crimes in New York City history can never be prosecuted, and that the jogger, Tricia Meili, will never see proper justice done on her behalf. A thoroughly gross miscarriage of justice all around.