CRIM 131 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Donald Marshall, Jr., Miscarriage Of Justice, Eyewitness Testimony
28 May 2016
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Wrongful convictions in canada: causes, consequences, and responses. Perception among many members of the public is that the justice system tends to protect the rights of the accused innocent accused persons are sometimes convicted of crimes they did not commit. Numerous procedural safeguards are presumed to protect the. The media and lobby groups such as the association in defence of the wrongly convicted (aidwyc) help in raising awareness about these cases. Wrongful conviction: individual has been arrested on criminal charges either plead guilty to the charge or been tried and found guilty; and who is in fact innocent. Accepted estimate is a general wrongful conviction rate between half of 1 percent and 1 percent. Study of false convictions in the united states that from 1989 to 2003, any estimate of the number of wrongful convictions in that country would be in the tens of thousands.
