James Lockyer
James Lockyer
James Lockyeris a lawyer and a prominent social justice activist in Canada. He is a founding director of the Association in Defence of the Wrongly Convicted. He has been involved in exposing more than ten wrongful convictions in Canada, including the cases of Guy Paul Morin, David Milgaard, Clayton Johnson and Gregory Parsons. Several of these cases have become the subject of public inquiries...
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And I am hoping that he will do that perhaps as soon as Thursday of this week.
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As a human being you thought the wrong man might be in jail, ... You might have saved him 12 more years in prison. How can you explain that nothing was done?
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Dr. Blake and Dr. Butt told us that there's absolutely nothing of forensic value in Lynne Harper's grave and, frankly, they never expected it, and neither did I. They certainly told me in advance that nothing would be found. I think it was really a matter of common sense that it wouldn't be.
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This is a familiar problem: people spending years in jail for crimes that didn't happen as a result of erroneous pathology.
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I hope I haven't got a battle on my hands. The attorney general of Ontario can consent to his release,
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Once again we have a man who's spent a lot of time in jail - 12 1/2 years in his case - not just for a crime he didn't commit, but for a crime that never happened,
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All we have now is a sort of a piecemeal examination of a case here and case there primarily brought forward by our organization. It's just not good enough.