Ottawa’s new bill offers hope to the wrongfully convicted
, two Indigenous men, both made perfectly rational decisions to plead guilty in exchange for sentences of “time served” . There are demands to imprison even more people before their trials, but one of the harmful yet unintended consequences could very well be more false guilty pleas.
Imagined crimes, in total, make up a third of the cases in the registry. Why are we convicting people of crimes that did not happen? There is tendency for justice system actors to be suspicious and to jump to conclusions. The criminal justice system is supposed to check and balance this, but like any system run by humans, it sometimes fails.
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