Liberals introduce ‘Milgaard’s Law’ to create review process for wrongful convictions
New legislation introduced in the House of Commons Thursday would make it easier and faster for people who may have been wrongfully convicted to have their cases reviewed.
“We need a system that moves more quickly, both for people applying as well as for victims and the process needs to be independent,” said Lametti. The government says it is rare for miscarriages of justice to occur but a formal process to review such cases is needed. “I’m going to try to get this through as fast as I can, through the parliamentary process,” he said. “I think I’ve got good support in the House and in the Senate. And then we’ll move as quickly as possible to get this thing up and running.”
“When I look at the files that come to me, I see a clear pattern. The applicants are overwhelmingly white men, and our prison populations do not look like that,” he said.
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