misdirection

Inaccurate aim.

Incorrect instructions or directions.

An error made by a judge in charging a jury.

The act of misdirecting, or the state of being misdirected; wrong direction; an erroneous indication, guidance, or instruction: as, the misdirection of a letter; a judge’s misdirections to the jury.

The act of directing wrongly, or the state of being so directed.

An error of a judge in charging the jury on a matter of law.

The direction of another’s attention to an unimportant place or matter, for the purpose of being able to perform an action undetected.

An act of misleading, of convincing someone to concentrate in an incorrect direction.

An error of law within a judgement committed by a judge or judges of a lower court, particularly as found by an appeals court

management that is careless or inefficient