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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

Truscott conviction called 'most egregious' legal mistake
( /CNEWS/Canada/2007/08/22/ )

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Steven Truscott.
(CPimages '06/Aaron Harris)

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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