เขาถูกจับผิดตัว...

[rak sa_ngop]

เขาถูกจับผิดตัวได้ยังไง

I can't work out if this chap was arrested for doing wrong or wrongly arrested.

What do you think?

Thanks

Taken from a Sue Grafton novel 'F is for Fugitive'

[AjarnPasa]

I think I'd translate this as "How did he come to be wrongfully arrested?"

[ZeroDesire]

Agree with ArJarn Pasa. Or I would say "how did he get arrested wrongfully."

[RickBradford]

I think I'd translate this as "How did he come to be wrongfully arrested?"

... or perhaps 'mistakenly' arrested to reflect the 'ผิดตัว' bit? Not much in it, perhaps.

[AjarnPasa]

I think I'd translate this as "How did he come to be wrongfully arrested?"

... or perhaps 'mistakenly' arrested to reflect the 'ผิดตัว' bit? Not much in it, perhaps.

I agree, possible that 'wrongful arrest' is a more 'technical/legal' term. I suppose context would help sort that one out.

[luckyfarang]

I think I'd translate this as "How did he come to be wrongfully arrested?"

... or perhaps 'mistakenly' arrested to reflect the 'ผิดตัว' bit? Not much in it, perhaps.

I agree with Rick Bradford and would translate this as "How could he be mistakenly arrested?"

The use of ผิดตัว indicates to me that they are referring to a case of mistaken identity.

The term for false arrest (wrongful arrest) would be จับมั่ว

"to arrest at random"

Edited January 7, 2012 by luckyfarang

[rak sa_ngop]

Thanks for the replies. i was not sure if จับผิด might have been a compound word meaning to be arrested for committing a a wrongful act.

It seems like everybody agrees that it was a false arrest whether it be wrongful or mistaken. I think in the context of the story it was probably a wrongful arrest i.e.they got the right man but he had not commited the crime (or do I mean mistaken arrest? Now I am really confused)