In my first foray at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, teaching a course on wrongful convictions, I have had some time to look closely at the field as a whole. One thing I’ve been able to […]
Justice Delayed, a blog
This website will serve as a support for the course I am coordinating in 2020 at SFU from February 24-March 30 (six Mondays from 9:30-11:20 a.m.) The title of the course refers to the way a […]
“The Central Park Five”, the wrongly convicted teens, Antron McCray, Yusef Salaam, Korey Wise, Raymond Santana, and Kevin Richardson in the Central Park jogger case, were as much victims of the brutal rapist, Matias Reyes as […]
Wrongful acquittals generally involve race and/or police killings. Colten Boushie, like William Ford, like Treyvon Martin, like Ian Bush, Eric Garner and so many more, was murdered in Saskatchewan by Gerald Stanley for, essentially, trespassing and […]
Wrongly Convicted From Birth Yance Ford, trans brother of the late William Ford III, created an Academy Award nominated documentary film, now on Netflix, about his brother’s murder by a young white man. There are infinite […]
I’ll start out by saying unequivocally that those who have lost a close friend or relative to a violent crime are justly aggrieved and will probably never recover from that loss. The question is (and was) […]
I recently sent an email to Senator Jeannie Darneille supporting the establishment of a process that would allow for release of rehabilitated prisoners after 15 years of incarceration. I hope this bill passes and I also […]
A three judge panel at the BC Supreme Court unanimously confirmed a lower court ruling that the convictions (and the investigation) of John Nuttall and Amanda Korody were “a travesty of justice”. The Mr. Big sting […]
In the latest installments of “Making of a Murderer” on Netflix, the contrast between the truth and the law becomes ever more evident. The great public service of this entire series, and other such programs dealing […]
The US Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on Brett Kavanaugh’s suitability to be a judge on the Supreme Court–a lifetime position–reinforces the perception that the United States of America is now a republic of lies. The entire […]