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Answer for the clue "Wrong legal decision ", 11 letters:
misjudgment

Word definitions for misjudgment in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. An act of misjudge, a mistake in judgment.

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Misjudgment \Mis*judg"ment\, n. [Written also misjudgement.] A wrong or unjust judgment.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1520s, from mis- (1) + judgment .

Usage examples of misjudgment.

With such a sport, in which life or death depended upon an instant, in which a slip of the foot, a misjudgment of distance, or a wavering of hand or eye meant horrible destruction, we may be sure that the tragedies of the Minoan bull-ring were many and terrible, and that the fair dames of the Knossian Palace, modern in costume and appearance as they seem to us, were as habituated to scenes of cruel bloodshed as any Roman lady who watched the sports of the Colosseum, and saw gladiators hack one another to pieces for her pleasure.

Haruun Kal has already taught me that the tragedy of misjudgment that was Geonosis was not an isolated event.

What he claimed afterward was the root of his misjudgment defies my understanding.

That it was my own people, here and now, crying out for aid from an emperor whose misjudgment had resulted in widespread slaughter.

In the past, this constellation of abilities had been Jonathan's forte, but during his first day of free climbing he made several misjudgments that sent him slithering down ten or fifteen feet to the scree, banging a little skin off elbows and knees and doing greater damage to his self-esteem.

After her little misjudgment with McKlearey, Monica would have been pretty docile even without his big hairy-chested routine.

Mistakes, misconceptions, and misjudgments had hounded him all the way.

If I don’t get another nap I’ll keep on making misjudgments till we run out of time.

Worse was the constant petty annoyances, the lost tools, the misplaced personal effects, the wrong turns, the misremembering, the misjudgments.