"misprosecute" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "mis- + prosecute",
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          "ref": "2000, Canada. Parliament. House of Commons, House of Commons Debates - Issues 75-84, page 5805",
          "text": "[…] there is a resonable basis to question that Cannada has deliberately and fraudulently misinvestigated or misprosecuted allegations with the aim of shielding a suspected war criminal;",
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          "ref": "2004, David Brooks, On Paradise Drive, page 137",
          "text": "Child-abuse scandals are prosecuted and misprosecuted with almost Salem-witch-trial fervor.",
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        {
          "ref": "2011, Richard Barre, Bearing Secrets",
          "text": "Bucky the Beater, who'd made a career out of misprosecuting gangsters, finally hitting one because the jerk confessed—at least he hadn't fucked that one up.",
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        "To prosecute badly or ineptly."
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