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Wrongful conviction resources
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Books
Canadian
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)
American
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)
Websites
Osgoode Hall Innocence Project
AIDWYC (Association in defence of the wrongly convicted)
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)
