Kent Roach - Does Canada Have A Wrongful Conviction Problem?

Alex speaks with Donner prize nominee Kent Roach about a topic that many Canadians may overlook when thinking about issues that are recurring at home: wrongful convictions and its victims. 

Episode Notes:

- Kent's award-winning book "Wrongfully Convicted: Guilty Pleas, Imagined Crimes, and What Canada Must Do to Safeguard Justice" https://a.co/d/d9mB5cN

- Canadian Registry of Wrongful Convictions: https://www.wrongfulconvictions.ca/ 

- The Innocence Project at Cardozo: https://innocenceproject.org/about/ 

- Blackstone's ratio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackstone%27s_ratio 

- Charles Smith (pathologist) background: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/dr-charles-smith-the-man-behind-the-public-inquiry-1.864004 

- R v Gladue: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_v_Gladue 

- Richard Catchaway case: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/richard-catcheway-wrongful-conviction-1.4681737 

- The Morin case on CRWC https://www.wrongfulconvictions.ca/cases/guy-paul-morin 

- The Goudge report on pediatric forensic pathology: https://wayback.archive-it.org/16312/20211207211516/https://www.attorneygeneral.jus.gov.on.ca/inquiries/goudge/index.html 

- The David Milgaard case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Milgaard