miscarriage of justice

C5411
concept

Miscarriage of justice is a serious failure of the legal system in which an individual is wrongly convicted, punished, or otherwise denied a fair and accurate legal outcome.

All labels observed (5)

Label Occurrences
miscarriage of justice canonical 5
wrongful conviction case 3
miscarriage of justice case 2

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: miscarriage of justice
Generated description
Miscarriage of justice is a serious failure of the legal system in which an individual is wrongly convicted, punished, or otherwise denied a fair and accurate legal outcome.

Instances (12)

Instance Via concept surface
the Azaria Chamberlain disappearance
surface form: Azaria Chamberlain disappearance
wrongful conviction case
Birmingham Six miscarriage of justice case
Archer-Shee case
Dreyfus affair
legal case State of New Jersey v. Rubin Carter
surface form: State of New Jersey v. Rubin Carter
wrongful conviction case
Scottsboro Boys trials of the 1930s
surface form: Scottsboro Boys trials
West Memphis Three case wrongful conviction controversy
Guildford Four miscarriage of justice case
Maguire Seven case
Calas
surface form: Calas affair
Central Park jogger case wrongful conviction case
Alfred Dreyfus victim of miscarriage of justice