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This article is about a wrongful conviction, not a wrongful imprisonment

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I think this article should have the title: "Wrongful conviction of Victor Nealon" because, to be imprisoned, the subject, Victor Nealon, first had to be convicted of a crime. And it was the flawed conviction process that resulted in the imprisonment. The imprisonment is a consequence of the conviction and once the conviction was overturned then the subject was released from prison. So how can just the imprisonment be considered wrongful, without also saying the conviction is wrongful? A wrongful imprisonment occurs when there is an inappropriate, or no, judicial procedure associated with the imprisonment. But when there is an error in the proper judicial procedure that leads to a conviction, it is the conviction that is wrongful, the imprisonment, alone, is not wrongful, because it relies on the assumption that the conviction process is valid. Which, in this case, it was not. - Cameron Dewe (talk) 10:01, 8 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]