HELP FOR THE WRONGFULLY CONVICTED: Canadian (and USA) prisons are full of men who have been wrongfully convicted by our legal system. More and more men are being freed on the basis of exonerating DNA evidence Until the courts jail women who lie in court, nothing will change. Even when convicted, women often get off because they have children. Nowhere in the criminal code is having children an excuse for being a criminal, nor does it give the court the right to let convicted women off but they do. Men have children too, but that doesn't count.
Justice In Canada?
Ask Morin, Milgard, Marshall (deceased Aug 2009, Nelles, Gregory Parsons, Ronald Dalton, Randy Druken about justice in Canada. All have been wrongfully convicted and or subsequently exonerated. But they are only the extreme cases. Every day dozens of men are wrongly convicted in Canadian Courts because they cannot afford bail or are poor.
The Association in Defence of the Wrongfully Convicted is an informal, unfunded group of outstanding Canadian Lawyers who have miraculously freed many wrongfully convicted men. The lawyers in this group generally work pro bono on serious cases only. James Lockyer seems to tbe the head of the group. If you have a case involving an extremely serious crime, (rape, murder) in which there may be DNA or other proof of injustice this may be for you. Men convicted on eye witness testimony are being freed since the system finally recognizes that eye witnesses are often completely unreliable. Racism and sexism are rampant in Canadian Courts. The police routinely lie in their testimony and Crowns knowingly work hard to convict people they know are innocent. The system does not dispense justice so much as it serves as a trash collection system which designed to clean the streets of undesireables regardless of innocence or guilt.
In the USA 1 person in 32 is either currently in prison or on probation or parole. Hundreds of men have been wrongfully executed. Tens of thousands are wrongfully convicted. Not just blacks and the poor, although they are the majority. The  Project Innocence Web Site is a superb source of USA information on fighting wrongfull convictions. posts a daily score card on the number of men on death row in the USA. | |
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