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"Greg Carr" wrote in message
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> He is innocent and the real killer might still be there.
>
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Probably, but isn't that life? Wrong place at the wrong time and you get hit
by lightning or run over by a bus.
Life sucks.
-lm


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>> Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 11:11:09 -0600
>> From: News@
>> Subject: Truscott conviction called 'most egregious' legal mistake- C
>> News
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>> Truscott conviction called 'most egregious' legal mistake
>> ( /CNEWS/Canada/2007/08/22/ )
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>> Image
>> Steven Truscott.
>> (CPimages '06/Aaron Harris)
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>> August 22, 2007
>>
>> TORONTO (CP) - A volunteer organization that took up Steven Truscott's
>> bid
>> to clear his name says it hopes his nearly half-century battle for
>> exoneration will end next week.
>>
>> Paul Copeland, co-president of the Association in Defence of the Wrongly
>> Convicted, says he hopes the Ontario Court of Appeal will rule there's
>> not
>> enough evidence to hold a new trial for Truscott and acquit him.
>> Truscott's
>> case is "another wrongful conviction in a series of them," Copeland said.
>>
>> "What it reflects is that the system is fallible and makes mistakes, and
>> this is probably the most egregious one in Canadian legal history."
>>
>> Truscott, now 62, was convicted in 1959 of raping and killing his
>> 12-year-old schoolmate, Lynne Harper, near Clinton, Ont.
>>
>> Then 14, Truscott was the youngest person in Canada to land on death row
>> before his sentence was commuted to life in prison.
>>
>> He was released on parole in 1969 and later married and raised a family
>> in
>> Guelph, Ont., under an assumed identity.
>>
>> Truscott went public with his story in 2000 in a bid to clear his name.
>>
>> Related Story URL
>> Truscott's wait nears end
>> /CNEWS/Canada/2007/08/22/
>>
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