Justice denied

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In 1971 a teenager was stabbed to death in Sydney, Nova Scotia. His companion, a Micmac named Donald Marshall, was charged with murder, convicted by an all-white jury and sentenced to life imprisonment. Eleven years later, after 2 RCMP investigations, Marshall was freed and the real murderer was convicted. This film traces the incompetence at every level that lay behind Marshall's wrongful conviction.

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Criminal justice, Administration of Canada

Indigenous peoples North America Canada Social conditions

Judicial error Canada

Marshall, Donald. Jr., 1953-2009

Murder Nova Scotia Sydney

Trials (Murder) Nova Scotia Sydney