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Royal Commission on the Donald Marshall, Jr. Prosecution
This document reviews the incident, the police response, the trial process, the 1971 RCMP review, the 1974 and 1975 reviews, the 1982 reinvestigation, the years in prison, and the reference decision. It also includes recommendations for dealing with the wrongfully convicted.
Royal Commission on the Donald Marshall, Jr., Prosecution
[Description from: https://novascotia.ca/archives/marshall/ October 2019. Click the Listing Source icon under "Other ways to get this book" to locate the complete report.]Donald Marshall Jr., a Mi'kmaq from Membertou, Nova Scotia, was wrongfully convicted of murdering Sandy Seale in Sydney's Wentworth Park in May 1971. Marshall was only 17 years old when he received a life sentence.After 11 years and one month in custody, Donald Marshall Jr. was released on July 28, 1982. On considering evidence not heard in the 1971 trial, the Appeals Division of the Nova Scotia Supreme Court found that "no reasonable jury could, on that evidence, find Donald Marshall, Jr. guilty of the murder." While the A...
