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Steven Truscott

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Steven Murray Truscott (born January 18, 1945 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian man who was sentenced to death in 1959 for the rape and murder of classmate Lynne Harper. [1]

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Actual innocence

Actual innocence is a state of affairs in which a defendant in a criminal case is innocent of the charges against them because he or she did not commit the crime accused.

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Alphonse Ouimet

Joseph-Alphonse Ouimet, (June 12, 1908 – December 20, 1988) was a Canadian television pioneer and president of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) from 1958 to 1967 Born in Montreal, he received a degree in electrical engineering from McGill University in 1932.

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Ann-Marie MacDonald

Ann-Marie MacDonald (born October 29, 1958) is a Canadian playwright, novelist, actress and broadcast host who lives in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Association in Defence of the Wrongly Convicted

The Association in Defence of the Wrongly Convicted (AIDWYC) or now known as "Innocence Canada" is a Canadian, non-profit legal organization with its headquarters in Toronto, Ontario.

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Attorney General of Ontario

The Attorney General of Ontario is the chief legal adviser to Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Ontario and, by extension, the Government of Ontario.

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Bayfield River

The Bayfield River is a river in Huron and Perth Counties in southwestern Ontario, Canada, that empties into Lake Huron at the community of Bayfield in the municipality of Bluewater.

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Blue Rodeo

Blue Rodeo is a Canadian country rock band formed in 1984 in Toronto, Ontario.

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Blyth Festival

Blyth Festival, is a theatrical festival, located in the village of Blyth, Ontario, Canada, which specializes in the production and promotion of Canadian plays.

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Blyth, Ontario

Blyth is village in North Huron, Huron County, Ontario, Canada.

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British Columbia

British Columbia (BC; Colombie-Britannique) is the westernmost province of Canada, located between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains.

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Calliphoridae

The Calliphoridae (commonly known as blow flies, blow-flies, carrion flies, bluebottles, greenbottles, or cluster flies) are a family of insects in the order Diptera, with 1,100 known species.

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Canadians

Canadians (Canadiens / Canadiennes) are people identified with the country of Canada.

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CBC Television

CBC Television (also known as simply "CBC") is a Canadian English-language broadcast television network that is owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the national public broadcaster. The network began operations on September 6, 1952. Its French-language counterpart is Ici Radio-Canada Télé. Headquartered at the Canadian Broadcasting Centre in Toronto, CBC Television is available throughout Canada on over-the-air television stations in urban centres and as a must-carry station on cable and satellite television. Almost all of the CBC's programming is produced in Canada. Although CBC Television is supported by public funding, commercial advertising revenue supplements the network, in contrast to CBC Radio and public broadcasters from several other countries, which are commercial-free.

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CBC.ca

CBC.ca is the English-language online service of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

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CFB Clinton

Canadian Forces Base Clinton, CFB Clinton for short, was a Canadian Forces Base located near Clinton, Ontario.

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Clinton, Ontario

Clinton is a community in the Canadian province of Ontario, located in the municipality of Central Huron.

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Collins Bay, Ontario

Collins Bay is a bay and natural harbour, as well as a community, within the western part of the municipality of Kingston, Ontario, Canada.

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Court of Appeal for Ontario

The Court of Appeal for Ontario (frequently referred to as the Ontario Court of Appeal or ONCA) is an appellate court in Ontario that is based at historic Osgoode Hall in downtown Toronto.

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Criminal Code (Canada)

The Criminal Code (Code criminelThe citation of this Act by this short title is authorised by the French text of of this Act.) is a law that codifies most criminal offences and procedures in Canada.

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Crown attorney

Crown Attorneys or Crown Counsel (or, in Alberta and New Brunswick, Crown Prosecutors) are the prosecutors in the legal system of Canada.

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DNA profiling

DNA profiling (also called DNA fingerprinting, DNA testing, or DNA typing) is the process of determining an individual's DNA characteristics, which are as unique as fingerprints.

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Emmett Matthew Hall

Emmett Matthew Hall (November 29, 1898 – November 12, 1995) was a Canadian lawyer, civil liberties advocate, Supreme Court of Canada judge and public policy advocate.

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Entomology

Entomology is the scientific study of insects, a branch of zoology.

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Fred Kaufman

Fred Kaufman is a Canadian justice, lawyer, and arbitrator.

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Goderich, Ontario

Goderich (pronounced either God-rich or God-er-ich) is a town in the Canadian province of Ontario and is the county seat of Huron County.

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Government of Canada

The Government of Canada (Gouvernement du Canada), formally Her Majesty's Government (Gouvernement de Sa Majesté), is the federal administration of Canada.

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Governor General's Awards

The Governor General's Awards are a collection of annual awards presented by the Governor General of Canada, recognizing distinction in numerous academic, artistic, and social fields.

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Guelph

Guelph (Canada 2016 Census population 131,794) is a city in southwestern Ontario, Canada.

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Hanging

Hanging is the suspension of a person by a noose or ligature around the neck.

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Huron Historic Gaol

The Huron Historic Gaol was established as the Huron County Gaol (Jail) for Upper Canada's Huron District.

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Irwin Cotler

Irwin Cotler, PC, OC (born May 8, 1940) was the Member of Parliament for Mount Royal from 1999 to 2015.

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Isabel LeBourdais

Isabel LeBourdais, née Erichsen-Brown (15 April 1909 – 2003) was a Canadian journalist and author.

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James Lockyer

James Lockyer (born December 21, 1949) is a lawyer and a prominent social justice activist in Canada.

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Julian Sher

Julian Sher is a Canadian investigative journalist and author based in Montreal, Quebec.

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Juvenile Delinquents Act

The Juvenile Delinquents Act (Loi sur les jeunes délinquants), SC 1908, c 40 was a law passed by the Parliament of Canada to improve its handling of juvenile crime.

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Keith Simpson (pathologist)

Cedric Keith Simpson, CBE, FRCP, FRCPath, (20 July 1907 – 21 July 1985) was an English forensic pathologist.

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Kingston Penitentiary

Kingston Penitentiary (known locally as KP and Kingston Pen) is a former maximum security prison located in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, between King Street West and Lake Ontario.

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Langara College

Langara College (snəw̓eyəɬ leləm̓ in hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓) is a public degree-granting college in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, which serves approximately 22,000 students annually through its university, career, and continuing studies programs.

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Laurier LaPierre

Laurier L. LaPierre, (November 21, 1929 – December 16, 2012), was a Canadian Senator, professor, broadcaster, journalist and author.

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Life imprisonment

Life imprisonment (also known as imprisonment for life, life in prison, a life sentence, a life term, lifelong incarceration, life incarceration or simply life) is any sentence of imprisonment for a crime under which convicted persons are to remain in prison either for the rest of their natural life or until paroled.

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List of miscarriage of justice cases

This is a list of miscarriage of justice cases.

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London, Ontario

London is a city in Southwestern Ontario, Canada along the Quebec City–Windsor Corridor.

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Maggot

A maggot is the larva of a fly (order Diptera); it is applied in particular to the larvae of Brachycera flies, such as houseflies, cheese flies, and blowflies, rather than larvae of the Nematocera, such as mosquitoes and Crane flies.

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Michael Bryant (lawyer)

Michael J. Bryant (born April 13, 1966) is a Canadian lawyer and former politician.

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Michael Moldaver

Michael Moldaver (born December 23, 1947) is a Canadian judge.

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Moncton

Moncton is the largest city in the Canadian province of New Brunswick.

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Overturned convictions in Canada

This is a list of notable overturned convictions in Canada.

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Parole Board of Canada

The Parole Board of Canada (Commission des libérations conditionnelles du Canada; formerly known as the National Parole Board) is a Canadian government agency that operates under the auspices of Public Safety Canada.

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Patrick Watson (producer)

Patrick Watson, CC (born December 23, 1929) has been a prolific and outspoken Canadian broadcaster, television and radio interviewer and host, author, commentator, and television writer, producer, and director for five decades.

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Pierre Berton

Pierre Francis de Marigny Berton (July 12, 1920 – November 30, 2004) was a noted Canadian author of non-fiction, especially Canadiana and Canadian history, and was a television personality and journalist.

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Quebec

Quebec (Québec)According to the Canadian government, Québec (with the acute accent) is the official name in French and Quebec (without the accent) is the province's official name in English; the name is.

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Rape

Rape is a type of sexual assault usually involving sexual intercourse or other forms of sexual penetration carried out against a person without that person's consent.

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Recommendation for Mercy

Recommendation for Mercy (released in the United States as Teenage Psycho Killer) is a 1975 Canadian film fictionalizing the murder trial of Steven Truscott.

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Roy McMurtry

Roland "Roy" McMurtry, (born May 31, 1932) is a lawyer, politician, and former judge in Ontario, Canada.

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Strangling

Strangling is compression of the neck that may lead to unconsciousness or death by causing an increasingly hypoxic state in the brain.

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Studio 58

Studio 58 is a professional theatre training school in Vancouver, Canada.

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Supreme Court of Canada

The Supreme Court of Canada (Cour suprême du Canada) is the highest court of Canada, the final court of appeals in the Canadian justice system.

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Supreme Court of Ontario

The Supreme Court of Ontario was a superior court of the Canadian province of Ontario.

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The Days In Between

The Days In Between is the eighth studio album by Blue Rodeo.

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The Fifth Estate (TV series)

The Fifth Estate is an English-language, award-winning Canadian television newsmagazine.

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The Trial of Steven Truscott

The Trial of Steven Truscott is a book written by Isabel LeBourdais, published in 1966, on the trial and conviction of Steven Truscott for the murder of Lynne Harper in 1959.

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The Way the Crow Flies

The Way the Crow Flies is a novel by Canadian writer Ann-Marie MacDonald.

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This Hour Has Seven Days

This Hour Has Seven Days is a controversial CBC Television newsmagazine which ran from 1964 to 1966.

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Trial as an adult

Trial as an adult is a situation in which a juvenile offender is tried as if they were an adult.

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Vanastra, Ontario

Vanastra is a community in the municipality of Huron East, Ontario in Huron County, three kilometres south of the community of Clinton.

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Vancouver

Vancouver is a coastal seaport city in western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia.

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2003 in literature

This article presents lists of literary events and publications in 2003.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Truscott

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