Wrongful conviction resources

o   Anderson, B., Manufacturing Guilt, Wrongful convictions in Canada (Halifax, Fernwood: 1998)

o   Boer, P., Wrongfully convicted: the innocent in Canada (Wetaskiwin: Quagmire Press, 2007)

o   Botting, G. Wrongful conviction in Canadian law (Markham: LexisNexis, 2010)

o   Doyle, J., True witness: cops, courts, science, and the battle against misidentification (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005)

o   Expert evidence in criminal proceedings: strategies for avoiding wrongful convictions and acquittals (Toronto: Osgoode Hall Law School Professional Development Programme, 2005)

o   Federal/Provincial/Territorial Heads of Prosecutions Committee Working Group: Report on the Prevention of Miscarriages of Justice (Ottawa: Department Justice, 2004)

o   Guidelines: Compensation for Wrongfully Convicted and Imprisoned Persons (Ottawa: Department of Justice, 1988)

o   Kaufman, F., The Commission on Proceedings Involving Guy Paul Morin: Report (Toronto: Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General, 1998)

o   Kaufman, F., In the Matter of an Application by Steven Murray Truscott Pursuant to Section 690 (Now 696.1) of the Criminal Code (Ottawa: Department of Justice, 2004)

o   Lamer, A., The Lamer Commission of Inquiry into the Proceedings Pertaining to: Ronald Dalton, Gregory Parsons and Randy Druken: Report and Annexes (St. John’s: Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, 2006)

o   Report of the Commission of Inquiry into Certain Aspects of the Trial and Conviction of James Driskell (Winnipeg: Commission of Inquiry into Certain Aspects of the Trial and Conviction of James Driskell, 2007)

o   Report of the Commission of Inquiry into Certain Aspects of the Trial and Conviction of James Driskell (Winnipeg: Department of Justice, 2007)

o   Royal Commission on the Donald Marshall, Jr., Prosecution: Findings and Recommendations (Halifax: The Commission, 1989) 

o   The Commission on Proceedings Involving Guy Paul Morin (Toronto: Ministry of the Attorney General, 1998)

o   Wrongful Convictions (Seminar materials) (Vancouver: Continuing Legal Education Society of British Columbia, 2010)

 

o   Burkoff & Hudson, Ineffective Assistance of Counsel, loose-leaf, (New York: Clark Boardman Callaghan, 1994)

o   Christianson, S., Innocent – Inside Wrongful Conviction Cases (New York: New York University Press, 2004)

o   Cook, Michael L. Why the Innocent Plead Guilty and the Guilty Go Free (LaVergne, Tenn.: Lightening Source, 2006)

o   Dwyer, Neufeld & Scheck, Actual Innocence (New York: Doubleday, 2000)

 

Osgoode Hall Innocence Project

 

AIDWYC (Association in defence of the wrongly convicted)

http://www.aidwyc.org  

Wrongful conviction database of the Univeristy of Texas at Austin

http://web.austin.utexas.edu/law_library/innocence/  

 

Website of the unlocking innocence conference, 2005

 

Injustice busters website

 

Government of Canada page on wrongful convictions

 

Truth in justice website

 

Inquiry into the wrongful conviction of David Milgaard

 

LLRX page on wrongful convictions (contains many links)