Resources

Correction and compensation in general

  • The Westminster Commission on Miscarriages of Justice, In the Interests of Justice: An Inquiry into the Criminal Cases Review Commission (London, 2021) at: https://appgmiscarriagesofjustice.files.wordpress.com/2021/03/westminster-commission-on-miscarriages-of-justice-in-the-interests-of-justice.pdf (accessed 15 Feb 2023).
  • David Asper, “Freeing David Milgaard the Ugly Way” in Adam Dodek and Alice Wooley, eds, In Search of the Ethical Lawyer (Vancouver: University of British Columbia, 2016).
  • Emma Cunliffe, “Henry v. British Columbia: Still Seeking a Just Approach to Damages for Wrongful Conviction” (2016) 76 S.C.L.R. (2d) 143.
  • Laurie Elks, Righting Miscarriages of Justice?: Ten Years of the Criminal Cases Review Commission (London: Justice, 2008).
  • Carolyn Hoyle and Mai Sato, Reasons to Doubt: Wrongful Convictions and the Criminal Cases Review Commission (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019).
  • Hon. Harry LaForme and Hon. Juanita Westmoreland-Traoré, “A Miscarriage of Justice Commission” at: https://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/rp-pr/cj-jp/ccr-rc/mjc-cej/index.html (accessed 11 Feb 2023).
  • Dianne L. Martin, “Extradition, the Charter and Due Process: Is Fairness Enough?” (2002) 16 S.C.L.R. (2d) 161.
  • Myles Frederick McLellan, Compensation for Wrongful Convictions in Canada (Moldova: Eliva Press, 2021).
  • Jamil Mujuzi, “The Right to Compensation for Wrongful Conviction/Miscarriage of Justice in International Law” (2019) 8 International Human Rights Review 215.
  • Michael Naughton, ed., The Criminal Cases Review Commission: Hope for the Innocent? (Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010).
  • Kent Roach, “Exceptional Procedures to Correct Miscarriages of Justice in Common Law Systems” in Darryl K. Brown, Jenia Iontcheva Turner, and Bettina Weisser, eds, The Oxford Handbook of Criminal Process (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019).
  • Kent Roach, “The Role of Innocence Commissions: Error Discovery, Systemic Reform or Both?” (2010) 85 Chicago-Kent L.Rev. 89.
  • Bibi Sanga and Robert Moles, Miscarriages of Justice and the Rule of Law in Australia (Australia: LexisNexis, 2015).
  • Bibi Sangha, Kent Roach, and Robert Moles, Forensic Investigations and Miscarriages of Justice (Toronto: Irwin Law, 2010).
  • Kent Roach, “Special Issue on Criminal Case Review Commissions and Ministerial Post-Conviction Review” (2012) 58(2) C.L.Q. 135.
  • Gary T. Trotter, “Justice, Politics, and the Royal Prerogative of Mercy: Examining the Self-Defence Review” (2001) 26:2 Queen’s L.J. 339.

Preventing wrongful convictions in general

  • Adam Benforado, Unfair: The New Science of Criminal Justice (New York: Crown, 2015).
  • Jason Chin and William Crozier, “Rethinking the Ken Through the Lens of Psychological Science” (2018) 55(3) Osgoode Hall L.J. 625.
  • Jason Chin, Michael Lutsky, and Itiel Dror, “The Biases of Experts” (2019) 42(4) Man. L.J. 21.
  • Hon. Peter Cory, The Inquiry Regarding Thomas Sophonow (Winnipeg: Queens Printer, 2001).
  • Emma Cunliffe and Gary Edmond, “Justice without Science?” (2021) 99 Can. Bar Rev. 65.
  • Emma Cunliffe and Gary Edmond, “Gaitkeeping in Canada: Missteps in Assessing the Reliability of Forensic Science” (2014) 92 Can. Bar Rev. 327.
  • Gary Edmond and Kent Roach, “A Contextual Approach to the Admissibility of the State’s Forensic Science and Medical Evidence” (2011) 61 U.T.L.J. 343.
  • M. Chris Fabricant, Junk Science and the American Criminal Justice System (Brooklyn: Akashie Books, 2022).
  • Adelina Iftene and Vanessa Kinnear, “Mr Big and the New Common Law Confessions Review: Five Years in Review” (2022) 43(3) Man. L.J. 295, 2020 CanLIIDocs 2564.
  • Kouri T Keenan and Joan Brockman, Mr. Big: Exposing Undercover Investigations in Canada (Halifax: Fernwood Publishing, 2010).
  • Dianne L. Martin, “Distorting the Prosecution Process: Informers, Mandatory Minimum Sentences, and Wrongful Convictions” (2001) 39:2 & 3 Osgoode Hall L.J. 513.
  • Dianne L. Martin, “Extradition, the Charter and Due Process” (2002) 16 S.C.L.R. (2d) 161.
  • Kent Roach, “The Protection of Innocence under the Charter” (2006) 34 S.C.L.R. (2d) 249.
  • Christopher Sherrin, “The Charter and Protection Against Wrongful Conviction: Good, Bad or Irrelevant” (2008) 49 S.C.L.R. (2d) 377.

Incorrect perpetrator wrongful convictions in general

  • Keith Findlay and Michael Scott, “The Multiple Dimensions of Tunnel Vision in Criminal Cases” (2006) Wisconsin L. Rev. 291.
  • Jeremy Greenberg, “When One Innocent Suffers: Phillip Tallio and the Wrongful Conviction of Indigenous Youth” (2020) 67 C.L.Q. 477.
  • Hon. Fred Kaufman, Report of the Commission on Proceedings Involving Guy Paul Morin (Toronto: Queens Printer, 1998).
  • Rt. Hon. Antonio Lamer, The Lamer Commission of Inquiry Pertaining to Ronald Dalton, Gregory Parsons and Randy Druken (St. John’s: Queens Printer, 2006).
  • Hon. Patrick LeSage, Report of the Inquiry Into Certain Aspects of the Trial of James Driskell (Winnipeg: Queens Printer, 2007).
  • Bruce A. MacFarlane, “Wrongful Convictions: The Effect of Tunnel Vision and Predisposing Circumstances in the Criminal Justice System” in Kent Roach, ed., Independent Research Studies for the Inquiry into Pediatric Forensic Pathology in Ontario, Vol. 1 (Toronto: Queens Printer, 2008).
  • Bruce A. MacFarlane, “Wrongful Convictions: Drilling Down to Understand Distorted Decision-Making by Prosecutors” (2016) 63:4 C.L.Q. 439.
  • Dianne L. Martin, “Lessons about Justice from the Laboratory of Wrongful Convictions: Tunnel Vision, the Construction of Guilt and Informer Evidence” (2002) 70:4 UMKC L. Rev. 847.
  • Hon. Edward MacCallum, Inquiry into the Wrongful Conviction of David Milgaard (Regina: Queens Printer, 2008).
  • D. Kim Rossmo and Joycelyn M. Pollock, “Confirmation Bias and Other Systemic Causes of Wrongful Convictions: A Sentinel Events Perspective” (2019) 112 Northeastern University Law Review 790.
  • D. Kim Rossmo, “Dissecting a Criminal Investigation” (2021) 36 Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology 639.
  • Michael Saks and Barbara Spellman, The Psychological Foundations of Evidence Law (New York: New York University Press, 2016).
  • Colin Sheppard, “The Connie Oakes Tragedy: The Same Mistakes and Still No Apology” (2020) 67 C.L.Q. 523.

Imagined crimes in general

  • John Chipman, Death in the Family (Toronto: Doubleday, 2017).
  • Rachel Dioso-Villa, “Scientific and legal developments in fire and arson investigation expertise in State of Texas v. Cameron Todd Willingham” (2013) 14(2) Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology 817–848.
  • Itiel Dror et al., “Cognitive Bias in Forensic Pathology Decisions” (2021) 66 Journal of Forensic Sciences 1751.
  • Hon. Stephen T. Goudge, Inquiry into Pediatric Forensic Pathology in Ontario (Toronto: Queens Printer, 2008).
  • David Grann, “Trial by fire: Did Texas execute an innocent man?” The New Yorker (7 Sept 2009) at: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/09/07/trial-by-fire (accessed 15 Feb 2023).
  • Jessica Henry, Smoke but not Fire: Convicting the Innocent of Crimes that Never Happened (Oakland: University of California Press, 2020).
  • Edward Humes, Burned: A Story of Murder and the Crime that Wasn’t (New York: Dutton, 2019).
  • Kirsten Johnson Kramar, Unwilling Mothers, Unwanted Babies: Infanticide in Canada (Vancouver: University of British Columbia, 2005) chs 5-6.
  • Matthew Barry Johnson, Wrongful Conviction in Sexual Assault: Stranger Rape, Acquaintance Rape, and Intra-Familial Child Sexual Assaults (New York: Oxford University Press, 2020).
  • Michael Saks and Barbara Spellman, The Psychological Foundations of Evidence Law (New York: New York University Press, 2016).
  • Alana Skalon and Jennifer L. Beaudry, "The effectiveness of judicial instructions on eyewitness evidence in sensitizing jurors to suggestive identification procedures captured on video" (2020) 16 Journal of Experimental Criminology 565–594 at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11292-019-09381-2.
  • Peter Speth et al., “Commentary on Dror et al ‘Cognitive Bias’” (2021) 66 Journal of Forensic Sciences 2577.
  • Stacy Wetmore et al., “Do Judicial Instructions Aid in Distinguishing Between Reliable and Unreliable Jailhouse Informants?” (2020) 47(5) Crim.Just.& Behav. 582.
  • Texas Forensic Science Commission, Willingham/Willis Investigation (Huntsville: Texas Forensic Science Commission, 2011) pp. 1–52.

False guilty pleas in general

  • Joan Brockman, “An Offer You Can’t Refuse: Pleading Guilty When Innocent” (2010) 56 C.L.Q. 116.
  • Amanda Carling, “A Way to Reduce Indigenous Overrepresentation: Prevent False Guilty Plea Wrongful Convictions” (2017) 64 C.L.Q. 415.
  • Public Prosecution Service of Canada, “Innocence at Stake: The Need for Continued Vigilance to Prevent Wrongful Convictions in Canada,” ch. 8, at: https://www.ppsc-sppc.gc.ca/eng/pub/is-ip/toc-tdm.html (accessed 23 Jan 2023).
  • Hon. Alvin Hamilton and Hon. Murray Sinclair, Report of the Manitoba Aboriginal Justice Inquiry (Winnipeg: Queens Printer, 1991).
  • Hon. Frank Iacobucci, First Nations Representation on Ontario Juries (Toronto: Ministry of the Attorney General, 2011).
  • Jerome Kennedy, “Plea Bargains and Wrongful Convictions” (2016) 63 C.L.Q. 556.
  • Chloé Leclerc and Elsa Euvrard, “Pleading Guilty: A Voluntary or Coerced Decision?”(2019) 34(3) Can.J.L.& Society 457.
  • Hon. Lynn Ratushny, The Self Defence Review – Final Report (Ottawa: Department of Justice, 1997).
  • Kent Roach, “You Say You Want a Revolution? Understanding Guilty Plea Wrongful Convictions” in K.M. Campbell, A. Horovitz, I. Cotler, and B. Ariel, Wrongful Convictions and the Criminalization of Innocence: International Perspectives on Contributing Factors, Models of Exoneration and Case Studies. UK: Routledge, forthcoming.
  • Elizabeth Sheehy, Defending Battered Women on Trial (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2014).
  • Christopher Sherrin, “Guilty Pleas from the Innocent” (2011) 30 Windsor Rev.Legal & Social Issues 1.

Wrongful convictions in general

  • Dawn Anderson and Barrie Anderson, Manufacturing Guilt: Wrongful Convictions in Canada, 2nd ed (Halifax: Fernwood Publishing, 2009).
  • Connor Bildfell, “Wrongful Convictions: A Hidden Cost of Inadequate Legal Aid Funding” (2020) 78:1 Advocate (Vancouver) 39.
  • Edwin Borchard, Convicting the Innocent (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1932).
  • Kathryn Campbell, Miscarriages of Justice in Canada: Causes, Responses and Remedies (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018).
  • Public Prosecution Service of Canada, “Innocence at Stake: The Need for Continued Vigilance to Prevent Wrongful Convictions in Canada,” ch. 8, at: https://www.ppsc-sppc.gc.ca/eng/pub/is-ip/toc-tdm.html (accessed 23 Jan 2023).
  • Judge Jerome Frank and Barbara Frank, Not Guilty (Garden City: Doubleday, 1957).
  • Brandon Garrett, Convicting the Innocent (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2011).
  • Helena Katz, Justice Miscarried Inside Wrongful Convictions in Canada (Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2011).
  • Bruce MacFarlane, “Convicting the Innocent: A Triple Failure of the Justice System” (2006) 31:3 Man. L.J. 403.
  • Daniel Medwed, ed., Wrongful Convictions and the DNA Revolution (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017).
  • Richard Nobles and David Schiff, Understanding Miscarriages of Justice (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000).
  • Kent Roach, “Wrongful Convictions in Canada” (2012) 80 U.C.L.R. 1475.
  • Bibi Sangha, Kent Roach, and Robert Moles, Forensic Investigations and Miscarriages of Justice: The Rhetoric Meets the Reality (Toronto: Irwin Law, 2010).
  • Regina Schuller, Kimberly Clow, and Caroline Erentzen, “Twenty Years for Nothing: Wrongful Conviction Cases in Canada” (2021) 69 C.L.Q. 111.
  • Sir Thomas Thorp, Miscarriages of Justice (Auckland: Law Research Foundation, 2005).