https://padlet.com/avamuir96/7krb9xlusn0g A case study on wrongful conviction by Ava Muir and Melissa Rada en-us 2016-11-15 23:53:07 UTC 2025-04-20 15:41:49 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Balance.png avamuir96 https://padlet.com/avamuir96/7krb9xlusn0g/wish/137943535 Guy Paul Morin, Donald Marshall Jr., David Milgaard and Rubin Carter are four of Canada's most famous cases of wrongful conviction. In this interview, the men speak on the travesties in which they've endured at the hands of the criminal justice system.]]> 2016-11-16 00:01:53 UTC https://padlet.com/avamuir96/7krb9xlusn0g/wish/137943535 avamuir96 https://padlet.com/avamuir96/7krb9xlusn0g/wish/137944514 Guy repeatedly stated his innocence during his six-hour long interrogation.]]> 2016-11-16 00:13:24 UTC https://padlet.com/avamuir96/7krb9xlusn0g/wish/137944514 avamuir96 https://padlet.com/avamuir96/7krb9xlusn0g/wish/137945003 Their website contains thorough information on each case that they have handled, as well as great ways to get involved.]]> 2016-11-16 00:19:12 UTC https://padlet.com/avamuir96/7krb9xlusn0g/wish/137945003 avamuir96 https://padlet.com/avamuir96/7krb9xlusn0g/wish/137945273 Only 9 years old when she went missing and was found murdered in 1984, Christine Jessop would have been 41 this year.]]> 2016-11-16 00:23:00 UTC https://padlet.com/avamuir96/7krb9xlusn0g/wish/137945273 avamuir96 https://padlet.com/avamuir96/7krb9xlusn0g/wish/137945571 This article by Peter Edwards and published in the Hamilton Spectator on October 2, 2014 focuses on things learned from this case in light of International Wrongful Conviction Day. It critiques the police handling of the case and emphasizes the need to always critically analyze our criminal justice system and be aware that wrongful convictions occur more than we may be willing to admit.]]> 2016-11-16 00:27:03 UTC https://padlet.com/avamuir96/7krb9xlusn0g/wish/137945571 avamuir96 https://padlet.com/avamuir96/7krb9xlusn0g/wish/137945842 This episode of the CBC's the fifth estate is the most in depth look at the case of Guy Paul Morin. Clocking in at just over 40 minutes long, the documentary features interviews with Morin himself and delves deep into the flaws made at the hands of the criminal justice system that lead to the wrongful imprisonment of an innocent man.]]> 2016-11-16 00:30:38 UTC https://padlet.com/avamuir96/7krb9xlusn0g/wish/137945842 avamuir96 https://padlet.com/avamuir96/7krb9xlusn0g/wish/137946225 On January 23, 1995, the Ontario Court of Appeal set aside Guy’s conviction of first degree murder and entered an acquittal instead. ]]> 2016-11-16 00:35:41 UTC https://padlet.com/avamuir96/7krb9xlusn0g/wish/137946225 avamuir96 https://padlet.com/avamuir96/7krb9xlusn0g/wish/137946684 In 2014, 30 years after the kidnapping and murder of Christine Jessop, her mother Janet spoke to CBC about her daughter. Now 72 and living in a retirement community in Niagara Falls, ON, Jessop still misses her "always happy, smiling" little girl.]]> 2016-11-16 00:39:55 UTC https://padlet.com/avamuir96/7krb9xlusn0g/wish/137946684 avamuir96 https://padlet.com/avamuir96/7krb9xlusn0g/wish/137961306 Commissioner Fred Kaufman wrote the Inquiry's report and cited the root cause of Morin's wrongful conviction as "tunnel vision."]]> 2016-11-16 02:59:38 UTC https://padlet.com/avamuir96/7krb9xlusn0g/wish/137961306 avamuir96 https://padlet.com/avamuir96/7krb9xlusn0g/wish/138963511 2016-11-20 21:05:05 UTC https://padlet.com/avamuir96/7krb9xlusn0g/wish/138963511