Justice Miscarried
Inside Wrongful Convictions in Canada
Dundurn Press · Print & ebook · June 14, 2011
Former bank manager Ronald Dalton never got to watch his three young children grow up.
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- Who it’s for
- Twelve wrongful convictions reveal how Canadian justice-system errors altered innocent lives.
- Themes
- Wrongful convictions, Errors in the criminal justice system, Lives changed by injustice
- Genres
- True Crime, Murder & Homicide, Criminal Procedure
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Former bank manager Ronald Dalton never got to watch his three young children grow up. In 1989 he was convicted for a crime that never happened. His wife, Brenda, was later ruled to have choked to death on breakfast cereal not strangled as a pathologist had initially claimed. Daltonâs daughter, Alison, was in kindergarten when he was charged with second-degree murder in 1988.
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He attended her high school graduation on June 26, 2000, two days after his conviction was finally overturned. Behind the proud facade of Canadaâs criminal justice system lie the shattered lives of the people unjustly caught within its web. Justice Miscarried tells the heartwrenching stories of twelve innocent Canadians, including David Milgaard, Donald Marshall, Guy Paul Morin, Clayton Johnson, William Mullins-Johnson, and Thomas Sophonow, who were wrongly convicted and the errors in the nations justice system that changed their lives forever.
Canadian Wrongful Convictions
Twelve wrongful convictions reveal how Canadian justice-system errors altered innocent lives.
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- Stories of twelve innocent Canadians
- Accounts of errors in Canada’s justice system
Expect
- Lives changed by wrongful convictions
- The Ronald Dalton case alongside other named cases
Where it sits
| True Crime | 71% |
|---|---|
| Criminal Procedure | 33% |
| Murder & Homicide | 25% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Criminal Law
- Criminal Sentencing
- Authors
- Helena Katz
- Publisher
- Dundurn Press
- Published
- June 14, 2011
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Wrongful convictions · Errors in the criminal justice system · Lives changed by injustice
- Reading lane
- Criminal Law