Wrongfully Convicted: Guilty Pleas, Imagined Crimes, and What Canada Must Do to Safeguard Justice

by Kent Roach

A top legal scholar explains Canada's national tragedy of wrongful convictions, how anyone could be caught up in them, and what we can do to safeguard justice.

Canada's legal system has a serious problem: a significant but unknown number of people have been convicted for crimes they didn't commit. There are famous cases of wrongful convictions, such as David Milgaard and Donald Marshall Jr., where the system convicted the wrong person...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1668023660
• ISBN13: 9781668023662
• Release Date: April 2023
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 9.1"