AND YET ANOTHER CASE OF A MURDER CONVICTION WHEN THERE WAS NO CRIME

Today's Waterloo Region Record carrys this story titled "The 45-year battle to prove Ontario man didn't kill his common-law wife". When and what will it take to stop these needless criminal convictions? How can the police, the Crown, judges and the whole judicial system continue to get things so wrong?

Of all the screwups by the judicial system the ones that are most egregious are those whereby an innocent person is convicted of a murder that never happened. There was the self appointed expert (Dr. Charles Taylor?) who kept determining that this child and that child died via criminal assaults only to learn years later that shaken baby syndrome had been over diagnosed for decades. Then of course we had Milgard, Morin and D. Marshall all wrongly convicted.

In this particular case both husband and wife had been drinking and she had fallen. A fatal stroke ensued and he was convicted. Decades later four different nueropathologists have ruled the death as accidental including one hired by the Crown. It was however the Association In Defence of the Wrongly Convicted who once again have stepped in and righted another miscarriage of justice. How many more before citizens see a pattern? Is our judicial system nothing more than a huge machine grinding up lives for its' own glory and financial benefit? Rather than pride in our institutions I am learning to be ashamed of them.