SOC209H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Donald Marshall, Jr., David Milgaard, Visible Minority
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Convicted in 1971 of murdering friend in nova scotia. Even after he was clear, the presiding justice commented marshall seems to have been partially copeable for this situation, . Not poster-child of a sympathetic figure, but amplified into belief that he was guilty of killing his friend when there was no evidence. Prejudice tainted the way he was treated incompetent police and legal work kept him in jail. What went wrong: people testifying on evidence made up or misconstrued, and led to his acquittal and exoneration. Wasn t until 1999, 30 years after original crime, larry fisher was found guilty. In some cases, the person who actually committed crime is not brought to justice. What can we learn from these case studies. Don t hear about robberies, those free people when locked up wrongly, don t focus on people who are locked up for robbery, focus on people doing long sentences, one consequences very little info on more mondain crime.
