Ep. 230: Kent Roach - Does Canada Have A Wrongful Conviction Problem?
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Alex speaks with Donner prize nominee Kent Roach about a topic that many Canadians may overlook when thinking about issues that are recurring at home: wrongful convictions and its victims.
Episode Notes:
- Kent's award-winning book "Wrongfully Convicted: Guilty Pleas, Imagined Crimes, and What Canada Must Do to Safeguard Justice" https://a.co/d/d9mB5cN
- Canadian Registry of Wrongful Convictions: https://www.wrongfulconvictions.ca/
- The Innocence Project at Cardozo: https://cardozo.yu.edu/innocence-project
- Blackstone's ratio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackstone%27s_ratio
- Charles Smith (pathologist) background: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/dr-charles-smith-the-man-behind-the-public-inquiry-1.864004
- R v Gladue: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_v_Gladue
- Richard Catchaway case: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/richard-catcheway-wrongful-conviction-1.4681737
- The Morin case on CRWC https://www.wrongfulconvictions.ca/cases/guy-paul-morin
- The Goudge report on pediatric forensic pathology: https://wayback.archive-it.org/16312/20211207211516/https://www.attorneygeneral.jus.gov.on.ca/inquiries/goudge/index.html
- The David Milgaard case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Milgaard
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