shockedcanadian
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About bloody time we try to join the 21st Century.
This is going to anger the Security Industrial Complex and their cowardly grovelers who spit in G-ds face.
David spent 20 years of his life in prison for a crime he didn't commit. It is devastating to a society when this happens.
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Susan Milgaard knows what her late mother Joyce and brother David would have to say about an independent commission that identifies wrongful convictions, at last, becoming a reality.
“My mother would say, ‘It’s terrific,’ and David would say ‘Well, what are we doing now?’” she said Thursday.
Milgaard was speaking in Toronto alongside federal Justice Minister Arif Virani and criminal defence lawyer James Lockyer to mark the passage of a bill creating a miscarriage of justice review commission — an accomplishment years in the making, and which advocates hope will lead to even more people, some of whom are likely still incarcerated, finally having their convictions overturned.
Milgaard knows all too well the challenges faced by people in that situation. Her brother David, who died in 2022, infamously spent over 20 years in prison for a murder and rape he did not commit before finally being exonerated thanks to DNA evidence identifying the real killer.
The Liberal government’s bill to create the commission, which received royal assent on Tuesday, is named David and Joyce Milgaard’s Law, in honour of a mother and son who fought tirelessly for the wrongfully convicted.
“I stood outside this morning watching the flag of Canada wave, and for the first time in my heart, I felt proud to be standing here knowing what a wonderful country this is,” Milgaard said Thursday.
This is going to anger the Security Industrial Complex and their cowardly grovelers who spit in G-ds face.
David spent 20 years of his life in prison for a crime he didn't commit. It is devastating to a society when this happens.

Ottawa passes ‘David and Joyce Milgaard’s Law’ to help wrongfully convicted people clear their names
The federal government’s bill, which received royal assent on Tuesday, is named in honour of a mother and son who fought tirelessly for the wrongfully convicted.
Susan Milgaard knows what her late mother Joyce and brother David would have to say about an independent commission that identifies wrongful convictions, at last, becoming a reality.
“My mother would say, ‘It’s terrific,’ and David would say ‘Well, what are we doing now?’” she said Thursday.
Milgaard was speaking in Toronto alongside federal Justice Minister Arif Virani and criminal defence lawyer James Lockyer to mark the passage of a bill creating a miscarriage of justice review commission — an accomplishment years in the making, and which advocates hope will lead to even more people, some of whom are likely still incarcerated, finally having their convictions overturned.
Milgaard knows all too well the challenges faced by people in that situation. Her brother David, who died in 2022, infamously spent over 20 years in prison for a murder and rape he did not commit before finally being exonerated thanks to DNA evidence identifying the real killer.
The Liberal government’s bill to create the commission, which received royal assent on Tuesday, is named David and Joyce Milgaard’s Law, in honour of a mother and son who fought tirelessly for the wrongfully convicted.
“I stood outside this morning watching the flag of Canada wave, and for the first time in my heart, I felt proud to be standing here knowing what a wonderful country this is,” Milgaard said Thursday.