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     The term “official misconduct” generally means the wrongful exercise of a power or the wrongful performance of a duty and is fully defined in Section 33-3 of the Criminal Code of 2012. The term “wrongful” as used in the definition of official misconduct means unauthorized, unlawful, abusive, negligent, reckless, or injurious.