LAWS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Donald Marshall, Jr., Tunnel Vision, Miscarriage
24 Dec 2016
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There are no reliable stats on the number of wrongful convictions in canada. Why then if the stat relevance of wrongful conviction is relatively low, is an. Examples: driskell, marshall, milgaard, morin, johnson, truscott. Beginning in 1986 with a public commission of inquiry into the wrongful conviction of donald marshall jr, there have been a number of subsequent public commissions on the miscarriage of justice (6 from 1986 to 2008) Wig wac native tribe of nova scotia victims of white racism. Natives and a black man are attacked by 2 white man. Older war veteran stabs the black man and escapes with his associate. Native to get help and eventually goes to the police. Tunnel vision occurred, claimed the stab wound on the native was self- inflicted to cover up story. Witnesses are threatened and pressured into changing their witness testimony to claim junior, the native, had committed the crime.
