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Principally seen in soap operas, where the continuous narrative structure lends itself to this sort of shenanigans. An innocent is framed for a major crime (usually murder, of course), and you can bet your bottom dollar they will be found guilty, sent to jail and have a thoroughly rotten time for a few weeks before being found not guilty on appeal. 

Out in the real world, this storyline will usually be used as part of a big publicity campaign for the soap opera in question. 

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== Live-Action TV ==
* A spectacularly successful example was the wrongful imprisonment of Deidre Rachid in ''[[Coronation Street]]'' in 1997, with even the newly-elected Prime Minister [[Tony Blair]] speaking up for the "Free Deidre" campaign.
* ''[[Soap]]'' also used this for the first season-ending [[Cliff Hanger]] on network TV.

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