This is a list of miscarriage of justice cases. This list includes cases where a convicted individual was later cleared of the crime and either has received an official exoneration, or a consensus exists that the individual was unjustly punished or where a conviction has been quashed and no retrial has taken place, so that the accused is legally assumed innocent. This list is not exhaustive. Crime descriptions with an asterisk indicate that the events were later determined not to be criminal acts.

List of cases

Argentina

Armenia

Australia

Brazil

Canada

China

Finland

France

Germany

Greece

Iceland

Iran

Ireland

Israel

Italy

Japan

Malaysia

Mexico

Netherlands

New Zealand

In the last ten years (as at 2023), nearly 900 New Zealanders have had their convictions overturned. The following cases are the only ones where the Government has paid compensation for a wrongful conviction, except for Peter Ellis who died before the Supreme Court in New Zealand overturned his convictions.

Nicaragua

Norway

Poland

Romania

Singapore

South Africa

South Korea

Spain

Sweden

Switzerland

Taiwan

Uganda

United Kingdom

United States

Due to the high number of notable wrongful conviction cases compiled for the United States, the list can be viewed via the main article.

Vietnam