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David Milgaard passed away on May 15, 2022, but his impact will endure, and his presence will always be felt by the wrongful conviction community in Canada and by all the lives he touched during his time amongst us. Rest in peace, David. We owe you a great debt of gratitude. You are not gone as you shall live forever in our hearts.

“Although it was a coincidence, I knew it wasn’t a mistake. What Louisiana was doing to men like my brother Elvis and my son Cedric was intentional.”

After spending 29 years in prison for the rape of his stepdaughter, a New Orleans man is free thanks to the help of the local district attorney’s office and testimony from the victim herself, who has insisted for 20 years that he is not the man who raped her.

Lametti introduced Bill C-40 [David and Joyce Milgaard’s Law] to amend the Criminal Code paving the way for the independent commission, which is expected to replace the current ministerial review process to review wrongful convictions.

For thirty years and in over 400 criminal cases, Dr Colin Manock was South Australia’s Chief Pathologist, without a single specialist qualification to put him there. How did it happen and why was he allowed to operate for so long?

Under Investigation puts the career of the disgraceful Dr Manock under the microscope. Our experts examine his tragically inept findings in four specific cases and the shocking injustices that resulted.

A Missouri man who has been serving a life sentence for nearly three decades was set free Tuesday after a judge ruled he is innocent and vacated his murder conviction.

Lamar Johnson was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole in 1995 after being convicted of murder in the death of Markus Boyd the year prior. At the time, police said Johnson and another man, Phillip Campbell, shot and killed Boyd.

Today, the Honourable David Lametti, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, introduced proposed Criminal Code amendments to establish an independent commission dedicated to reviewing miscarriage of justice applications. The new commission would replace the current ministerial review process. Under the Miscarriage of Justice Review Commission Act (David and Joyce Milgaard’s Law), the new commission would review, investigate, and decide which criminal cases should be returned to the justice system due to a potential miscarriage of justice.

CTV’s W5 recently aired an episode telling the story of Greg Parsons, who was wrongfully convicted of his mother’s murder in St. John’s Newfoundland.

To watch the 1-hour special, go to the CTV site, here.

Exoneree Tammy Marquardt was a guest on an episode of the podcast “Darts & Letters.” The episode focused on the disgraced Charles Smith who performed autopsies on children at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, ON. He repeatedly concluded, without scientific basis, that child deaths were the result of foul play. In 2008, a public inquiry found evidence of errors in 20 of the 45 autopsies he performed. Smith’s conclusions played a role in 13 known wrongful convictions.

The government’s official law reform body has confirmed that it will look at the controversial law around criminal appeals and the statutory test applied by the miscarriage of justice watchdog before referring a case back to the Court of Appeal.

The family of a father who was wrongly convicted of murder have been given a police apology 70 years after he was executed in a British prison.

Roy Green interviews Innocence Canada co-president and exoneree, Ron Dalton, who spent 8 years in prison after being wrongfully convicted.

A man who served 20 years in prison on a wrongful conviction, despite having 13 alibi witnesses, was awarded $5m by a jury in a federal court in New York on Thursday.

The Michigan Department of Attorney General’s Conviction Integrity Unit (CIU) received the federal grant to help with DNA testing in the cases.