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Eleven Years for a Killing He Did Not Commit: The Case of Donald Marshall Junior.
In 1971, Donald Marshall Jr. was wrongfully convicted of killing his friend in Nova Scotia. And even after the conviction was overturned, he was still blamed for the judicial error.
In 1971 the Mi’kmaw community of Membertou sat on a hill roughly three kilometres above downtown Sydney, Nova Scotia. It had been placed there in 1926, after prominent Sydney residents spent years petitioning to have the King’s Road Reserve removed from the expanding city core. They argued that their Mi’kmaw neighbours drove down property values and endangered public health. The Exchequer Court of Canada ordered…
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