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* AdvaneNoticeCrime: A criminal announces a crime before committing it.

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* AdvaneNoticeCrime: AdvanceNoticeCrime: A criminal announces a crime before committing it.
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* AdvaneNoticeCrime: A criminal announces a crime before committing it.

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* MistakenForImprisonment

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* MistakenForImprisonmentMistakenForImprisonment: Someone incorrectly assumes they're being detained in jail or prison.


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* MistakenForSpies: Circumstances lead to an innocent person being wrongfully accused of espionage.


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* MistakenForThief: Circumstances lead to an innocent person being wrongfully accused of stealing something.
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* FalseRapeAccusation: A fraudulent allegation of sexual assault against an innocent person.

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* FalseRapeAccusation: A fraudulent allegation of sexual assault against accusing an innocent person.person of committing sexual assault.
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* MistakenForTerrorist: Circumstances lead to an innocent person being wrongfully accused of violent political extremism.
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* GuiltyUntilSomeoneElseIsGuilty

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* GuiltyUntilSomeoneElseIsGuiltyGuiltyUntilSomeoneElseIsGuilty: An innocent person is considered to be guilty until their innocence is proven by the revelation of the real culprit behind the crime.
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+ GenocideTropes: Tropes about the systematic, targeted mass murder of large groups of people, which in modern times is considered to be a very serious war crime/crime against humanity.

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+ GenocideTropes: Tropes about the systematic, targeted mass murder of large groups of people, which in modern times is considered to be a very serious war crime/crime crime / crime against humanity.
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* PoliceBrutality: When cops engage in excessively violent force against suspects or other citizens.

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* PoliceBrutality: When cops engage in excessively violent force against suspects suspected criminals or other citizens.innocent people. May sometimes (rarely) result in the offending cop being prosecuted for brutalizing the victim.
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* PaperworkPunishment: After someone has done something wrong, they're saddled with copious amounts of paperwork to fill out.

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* PersecutingProsecutor: A prosecutor who will do anything and everything to win their case.



* PossessionPresumesGuilt: When an innocent person gets caught with something which makes them look guilty.

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* PossessionPresumesGuilt: When an innocent person gets caught with something which that makes them look guilty.



* PrisonEpisode: An episode of the show where one of the characters go to prison.

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* PrisonEpisode: An episode of the show where one of the characters go goes to prison.
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* OpenAndShutCase

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* OpenAndShutCaseOpenAndShutCase: Ironic OneLiner about a case so obviously easy to close.
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* MinorCrimeRevealsMajorPlot

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* MinorCrimeRevealsMajorPlotMinorCrimeRevealsMajorPlot: The investigation of a small time crime leads to the discovery of a larger one.

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* CorrectiveLecture: A character admonishes someone with a lecture about their behavior


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* CorrectiveLecture: A character admonishes someone with a lecture about their behavior.
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* CorrectiveLecture: A character admonishes someone with a lecture about their behavior
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Per TRS, this trope was merged with The Con


* MassiveMultiplayerScam: Engineered situations and several people are used in an elaborated [[TheCon con]].
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* KidnappersKFC: A kidnapper buys fast food for their hostage while on the run from the cops.

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* CementShoes: Killing someone by attaching concrete to them and forcing them to sink into water, so they drown while being unable to swim back up.



* CleanupCrew: Characters whose job it is to clean up incriminating evidence.



* DangerouslyCloseShave



* DeadlyDelivery
* DeadlyRemoteControlToy



* DeathInTheClouds: Somebody is murdered while on an airplane.



* DismemberingTheBody: A corpse is dismembered before disposing of it, often by dispersing the bits.



* ExternalCombustion



* FedToPigs: A body is disposed of by feeding it to pigs.



* FelonyMurder

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* FelonyMurderFelonyMurder: If someone dies because you committed a felony, that's murder.


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* FurnaceBodyDisposal


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* MurderByCremation
* MurderByRemoteControlVehicle


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* VehicleRoofBodyDisposal


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* VehicularSabotage
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* ScaryMinoritySuspect: An immoral-seeming TokenMinority character is portrayed as the obvious suspect of a crime.
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* SentencedWithoutTrial: Someone is condemned for a crime without receiving a trial, despite being specifically entitled to one by whatever legal system exists in the setting.
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* TruceTrickery: A war crime formally known as "perfidy".
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* FakeAlibi: A suspect claims to have [[TheAlibi an alibi]], witnesses confirm, yet the suspect is actually guilty.
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* PerpAndWeapon: Nonviolently de-escalating a dangerous situation.
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* CuffsOffRubWrists
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* MassiveMultiplayerScam: Engineered situations and several people are used in an elaborated [[TheCon con]].
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* BathroomControl: A character is not allowed to go to the bathroom as punishment.
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* TerminallyIllCriminal: A character commits a serious crime after learning they have a fatal disease.
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* FingerInTheMail

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* FingerInTheMailFingerInTheMail: Delivering a severed finger (or other body extremity) as proof of a kidnapping.
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* PerpAndWeapon

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* PerpAndWeaponPerpAndWeapon: Nonviolently de-escalating a dangerous situation.

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+ SexualHarassmentAndRapeTropes: Tropes about various forms of sexual abuse and assault.



+ SexualHarassmentAndRapeTropes: Tropes about various forms of sexual abuse and assault.
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* SuspiciouslyIdleOfficers

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* SuspiciouslyIdleOfficersSuspiciouslyIdleOfficers: A corrupt employee is never seen doing their job.

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