What is "railroaded"

Usage examples of "railroaded".

If he did not defend Violet Dearing, she would in all probability go to the electric chair, railroaded by a sinister power whose influence he had felt twice tonight.

What, d'you think I'm nobody, to be railroaded by some tinpot foreign court on a trumped-up charge?

Hypocrisy within the idealism: Lesnick’s male patients, hearts bleeding over the poor railroaded Mexicans, complained to him of Communist Party white women screwing “proletariat” taco benders--then assailed themselves as rabid bigots moments later.

Everybody knew the killer was Mexican--the cops just railroaded the wrong Mexicans.

They railroaded Oppenheimer on trumped-up charges that he was a communist.

Not without a struggle was I to be railroaded off to prison or to Purgatory.