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Old 07-15-2008, 04:49 PM   #150
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High-profile cases where the courts got it wrong

The wrongful convictions of Donald Marshall Jr., David Milgaard and Guy Paul Morin have spotlighted what many call the failure of the Canadian justice system.

Advocates say many convicts who were ultimately exonerated watched their applications languish for years in the federal review board.

On June 8, 2000, then justice minister Anne McLellan announced plans to try to avoid such cases from happening again.

Her proposed changes, since enacted in Section 690 of the Criminal Code of Canada, enable the minister of justice to use his or her discretion to respond to persons who believe they have been wrongfully convicted.

Based on the U.K. experience, the organization believes these represent a small percentage of actual numbers of the wrongly convicted in Canada.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/wrongfullyconvicted/
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