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	Guy Paul Morin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Guy Paul Morin is a Canadian who was wrongfully convicted of the October, 1984 murder of his nine-year-old, next-door-neighbour, Christine Jessop of Queensville, Ontario.
		Morin was acquitted of murder at his first trial in 1986.
		An inquiry into Morin's case also uncovered evidence of police and prosecutorial misconduct, and of misrepresentation of forensic evidence by the Ontario Centre of Forensic Sciences.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Guy_Paul_Morin (278 words)

	Transition Page -- The Ordeal of Guy Paul Morin: Canada Copes With Systemic Injustice
		The extent of contact between the Jessops and the Morins was a contentious issue in the case, particularly as it was relevant to the weight to be given to fiber comparisons relied upon by the prosecution at trial.
		Morin was represented by Clayton Ruby and Mary Bartley.
		On January 23, 1995, Guy Paul Morin's appeal of his conviction for murder was allowed based on the DNA report, his conviction was set aside, and a directed verdict of acquittal was entered.
	www.criminaljustice.org /CHAMPION/ARTICLES/98aug01.htm (4892 words)

	Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Paul will not accept a half-hearted and lack-luster prosecution of these individuals from the same Crown Attorneys who have insisted upon continued prosecutions against him, when their office was already in possession of compelling evidence that clearly exposed that a criminal conspiracy was being carried out against him.
		Paul was able to access the officers notes, and as a result accused him in court of falsifying his note book, citing irregularities in the note book entries.
		Paul's lawyer later wrote to the psychiatrist informing him that legal action was being contemplated on account of the release of the report.
	webhome.iprimus.ca /920965/Page00.htm (5035 words)

	Morin Final Report Inquiry
		Should those who have retired lose their pensions?" Morin said law enforcement officials are hopelessly out of touch with public sentiment if they think the story ends with the release of the report.
		In his 1,380-page report, he was clear in branding the Morin case a landscape of error and ineptitude, rooted in the blind belief that Morin killed Christine in 1984.
		Morin was arrested in 1985, acquitted in 1986 but retried and convicted in 1992.
	www.prisonactivist.org /pipermail/prisonact-list/1998-April/001675.html (520 words)

	Canada and the World Backgrounder: Capturing the Innocent (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Morin's case of wrongful conviction led the Province of Ontario to conduct an exhaustive examination of its criminal justice system and its mishandling of the Morin case.
		The result was The Commission on Proceedings Involving Guy Paul Morin with the Honourable Fred Kaufman, former judge of the Quebec Court of Appeal, as commissioner.
		Then, as in the case of Guy Paul Morin, investigators built their case backwards, manipulating and creating evidence to support their belief that he was guilty.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3695/is_200403/ai_n9387206 (1458 words)

	Scott Peterson and Guy Paul Morin.
		In actual fact, the claim that Morin was framed is not a conspiracy theory, but the testimony of Guy Paul Morin.
		That in itself, strongly suggests that Guy Paul Morin was framed.
		Morin was convicted, yet he is the only key player who emerged from the entire ordeal, with his credibility intact.
	skakel.tripod.com /chapt4.htm (949 words)

	THE MORIN INQUIRY Terms of Reference (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Guy Paul Morin was charged on April 22, 1985 with that murder.
		This includes many events, including a key interview with Morin by police on February 22, 1985, and the involvement of the Centre of Forensic Sciences in the receipt and testing of hair fibres and other items.
		These events include a successful appeal to the Ontario Court of Appeal by the Crown, an unsuccessful appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada by Morin, the development of various disclosure issues, change of defence counsel and an application by Morin for a rehearing by the Supreme Court which was dismissed on May 14, 1990.
	www.criminallawyers.ca /newslett/oct96/05MORIN.HTM (1460 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Guy Paul Morin was a “weird” young man who stilled lived with his parents in Queensville, Toronto.
		Morin lived a secluded life and was out of the ordinary; the police thought he was “weird”.
		If Morin and Marshall had been able to secure better legal services, or perhaps if they had not been so gauche to begin with, chances are their trials would have been drastically different, maybe non-existent.
	www.sfu.ca /~bzuckerm/courses/crim101/paper1.doc (1835 words)

	AFP experts provide insight (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Morin appealed to the Supreme Court of Canada but his application was dismissed in November 1988, and the order for a new trial was affirmed.
		Counsel appearing for the Morin family was critical of the prominence played in the second trial of the evidence of the prison informants.
		Morin’s Counsel strongly supported this approach, particularly in respect of forensic hair comparison analysis and evidence of a presumptive test, such as indications of blood or semen.
	www.afp.gov.au /afp/raw/Publications/Platypus/Mar99/afpexprt.htm (4284 words)

	Toronto Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		(Morin was acquitted of sexually assaulting and murdering Christine Jessop, his 9-year-old neighbor, at his first trial in 1986.
		When there's a conviction shrouded in so much doubt as is the case with Guy Paul Morin, justice, compassion and human decency demand that he be allowed to remain at liberty until his appeal is finally decided."
		In both instances, key witnesses were criminals with extensive records who "had everything to gain and nothing to lose" by agreeing to testify for the prosecution.
	www.angelfire.com /ma3/SteinDawg18/toronto1993.htm (281 words)

	Untitled
		Morin was arrested on April 22, 1985 and the beige Honda was seized and sent to the Ontario Centre of Forensic Science in Toronto.
		Guy Paul spent eleven years in a hell that was the making of corrupt officials.
		One juror who was interviewed on television said she found Guy Paul guilty because he didn't look her in the eye when he was on the witness stand.
	www.suite101.com /print_article.cfm/5086/108574 (832 words)

	Paul Morin knows the power of forensic evidence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		By this stage of the inquiry, Paul Morin had already become somewhat of a suspect in the case – but when the profile was developed, it closely paralleled his character - a parallel that ken Jessop (Christine’s brother) later suggested was "custom fitted" by Douglas to fit Morin.
		At the police station Morin volunteered samples of his hair, blood and saliva, which were subsequently delivered to the Centre of Forensic Sciences in conjunction with his motor vehicle.
		A search of Morin’s home was also undertaken, with the intention of discovering some sort of evidence that could tie him to the murder – particularly a murder weapon, buttons missing from Christine’s blouse, a blue woolen sweater, clothing items that contained blood stains, and most of all, gold coloured seat covers and animal hairs.
	www.uplink.com.au /lawlibrary/Documents/Docs/Doc52.html (2940 words)

	CBC News: Morin inquiry slams investigation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		After 10 months of testimony and 120 witnesses, an Ontario judge has released his report on how Guy Paul Morin came to be convicted of a crime he didn't commit.
		Kaufman said the mistakes in Morin's case were the result of poor judgement.
		Morin was sent to prison for the 1985 murder of his nine-year-old neighbour, Christine Jessop.
	www.cbc.ca /story/news/national/1998/04/09/morin980409c.html (209 words)

	Witness - Subway Elvis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Guy Paul Morin got $1.4 million but nearly one third went to pay for lawyers fees.
		In Canada the lead advocate is The Association in Defense of the Wrongly Convicted which evolved out of the Justice for Guy Paul Morin Committee in 1994.
		As a result in the fall of 2001 parliment passed the new Omnibus Bill containing new sections of the Criminal Code to deal with cases of wrongful conviction.
	www.tv.cbc.ca /witness/elvis/wrongful.htm (648 words)

	injusticebusters 2004 > > Susan MacLean: Former prosecutor in Morin case appointed to bench in Ontario
		Morin was arrested and jailed for eight months prior to his first trial.
		Morin had been a victim of startlingly flimsy evidence, terrible judgment and "tunnel vision" by police and prosecutors.
		Morin's trial lawyer, said it is worrisome that someone as "one-sided and strident" as Ms.
	www.injusticebusters.com /04/Ont_judge_Maclean.htm (1237 words)

	Hansard Issue: L094
		Minister, Guy Paul Morin's mother, Ida, is in the gallery today on behalf of the Morin family.
		Mrs Morin today delivered a letter to the Premier which concludes by stating, "Guy Paul was exonerated on January 23, 1995, but in the eyes of the people of Ontario and Canada, this doesn't right the wrongs done by incompetent public servants and government officials to Guy Paul and his family."
		Clerk of the House (Mr Claude L. DesRosiers): The ayes are 72; the nays are 43.
	hansardindex.ontla.on.ca /hansardECAT/36-1/L094-3.htm (7914 words)

	A Canadian Atrocity
		Guy Paul Morin lived next door to nine-year-old Christine Jessop’s family in Queensville, Ontario.
		Guy Paul, who worked for a furniture manufacturer, lived with his parents in this quiet town in southern Ontario.
		Morin and noted that while Guy Paul was present he sat silently and “stared straight ahead.” McGowan felt this was suspicious behavior.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/canadian_tourism/108574 (463 words)

	[No title]
		For instance, “[t]he wrongful convictions of Donald Marshall, David Milgaard, Guy Paul Morin, and [Thomas Sophonow] have precipitated a growing crisis of legitimacy within the Canadian criminal justice system.” At one time, these men have trusted that their trials would bring justice and integrity to light.
		Another area are jailhouse informants in which Dean May and Mr.X, Morin’s fellow inmates in Whitby Jail “claimed that they reported the confession and gave their evidence because they were morally outraged at the crime committed by Morin.” Both individuals’ statement was deemed unreliable and full of lies.
		Similar to Marshall’s case, Guy Paul Morin’s case involves similar recommendations. However, as the jailhouse informants were a considerable influence in Morin’s conviction, the Commissioner dedicated a portion of the recommendation report to address the issue of use of informants.
	www.geocities.com /miarlin_chan/wrongfulconvictions.doc (2659 words)

	ES&E July 1997: Editorial Comment
		The Bre-X gold mining fiasco in Indonesia and the wrongful conviction of Guy Paul Morin in Ontario are currently dominating the headlines; both shed new light on the role of analytical and assay laboratories.
		For Guy Paul Morin, relief came only after he had spent time in jail, faced financial ruin and endured more than a decade of anguish before and after the trials.
		The Guy Paul Morin case has already cost untold millions and you can bet your gas chromatograph that many inmates, convicted on the Centre's evidence, are already in consultation with their lawyers with a view to appealing their convictions.
	www.esemag.com /0797/0797ed.html (898 words)

	Anarchist Black Cross Network: Resistance is Global (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The book under review examines these and other less contemporary cases of miscarried justice (or, in the case, of Steven Truscott, suspected miscarriage of justice) and is an attempt to construct what might be termed a sociology of wrongful conviction.
		However, the judicial consequences of this combination of bad luck, incompetence and malevolence are not equally distributed throughout the population: some individuals are more vulnerable to miscarriages of justice than others; and it is at this juncture that the author links inequalities in society with discrimination in the criminal justice system.
		Hence the argument that the casualities of police, courts and correctional activity are drawn disproportionately from the ranks of the poor and disadvantaged (or - as in the case of Guy Paul Morin - those who are simply seen as oddballs in their communities).
	www.anarchistblackcross.org /content/essays/articles/wc/manufact.htm (435 words)

	Joining the ranks of the wrongfully convicted - The Wrongful Conviction of David Milgaard - CBC Archives
		But unlike Donald Marshall, Guy Paul Morin, and Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, Milgaard has yet to be exonerated in the crime for which he was wrongfully convicted.
		• Guy Paul Morin was arrested in 1985 for the murder of his nine-year-old neighbour, Christine Jessop.
		One of her first efforts was to join the fight to get Guy Paul Morin out of jail.
	archives.cbc.ca /IDC-1-74-713-4228/people/milgaard/clip10 (493 words)

	Wrongful (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		On January 23, 1995 Guy Paul Morin was exonerated of a first-degree murder conviction of Christine Jessop, ten years after his arrest and two lengthy criminal trials.
		There was the "evidence" of Morin's opportunity to commit the crime, the supposed confessions during interrogation, hair and fibre evidence supported be perjured forensic scientists, perjured testimony of the Jessops', the alleged confession of Morin to his two cellmates, and other citizens with similar testimony (King, 1998).
		The defence's testimony about Morin's schedule the day of the abduction became his sole alibi, and the ultimate reason for the initial verdict of not guilty.
	ace.acadiau.ca /soci/agt/soci3703/crimepunish2000/wrongful.htm (2937 words)

	The Militant - 6/5/95 -- Toronto Meeting Exposes Frame-Up Cases
		He was joined on the panel by Guy Paul Morin, Marshall Thompson, David Milgaard and Thomas Sophonow.
		Both James McCloskey, founder of Centurion Ministries, a U.S. organization dedicated to freeing the wrongly convicted, and James Lockyer, one of Morin's lawyers, pointed to the similarities between different cases of unjust conviction.
		Prosecutorial and police misconduct are common, involving the suppression or manipulation of evidence, the willful use of jailhouse informants, and the wringing of false confessions through grueling and confusing interrogations.
	www.themilitant.com /1995/5922/5922_28.html (762 words)

	Morin Submissions Made by Timothy R. Lipson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Our task is to do everything humanly possible to avoid the potential for miscarriages of justice and when they do occur, to not only learn from them, but to take steps to ensure that the same mistakes which caused the wrongful conviction do not recur.
		During the systemic phase of this Inquiry, issues directly related to the wrongful conviction of Guy Paul Morin were canvassed in a comprehensive fashion.
		Most of the recommended quality-control policies existed in theory at the time of the Morin trials, however, they were not in force.
	www.criminallawyers.ca /morinsub.htm (4166 words)

	injusticebusters 2005 > > First serious look at problems in justice system in Canada
		As the report notes, more education is required "on the proper use, examination and cross-examination of expert witnesses." I'd add that the experts, too, need training on presenting their evidence in clear, intelligible language, not subject to misinterpretation by a judge and jury.
		One witness told the Morin inquiry that a wrongful conviction is a prosecutor's worst nightmare.
		Fred Kaufman, a retired Quebec appeal-court judge, headed the Commission on Proceedings Involving Guy Paul Morin and conducted a review of Steven Truscott's application to the Minister of Justice to reopen his 1959 conviction on a charge of murder.
	www.injusticebusters.com /05/Wrongful.shtml (2785 words)

	Damien Echols
		After a trial in which no conclusive physical evidence was presented, he was convicted and sentenced to death by lethal injection.
		The most disturbing thing about the Guy Paul Morin case to me was not that the police made a mistake.
		The bottom line is, the evidence against Morin was never very good but the police and the crown attorneys decided to pursue the case against him anyway.
	www.chromehorse.net /rants/rants98/damien.htm (1592 words)

	Paul Morin
		Canadian literature, French - Canadian literature, French, the body of literature of the French-speaking population of Canada.
		Presumed innocent: a champion of the wrongly convicted, James Lockyer has helped free Guy Paul Morin, Clayton Johnson and a half-dozen other inmates from Canadian prisons.
		Capturing the innocent: Donald Marshall, David Milgaard, Guy Paul Morin, Romeo Phillion, Thomas Sophonow, Stephen Truscott, and others are the high-profile cases--men convicted of murders they didn't commit.(The Law-Wrongful Convictions) (Canada and the World Backgrounder)
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0834044.html (273 words)

	CBC News: Guy Paul Morin inquiry wraps up (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The inquiry into the wrongful conviction of Guy Paul Morin has wrapped up.
		Monday's final arguments were presented by Melvyn Green, representing the Association in Defence of the Wrongly Convicted.
		Morin was convicted in 1992 of murdering Christine Jessop, but was exonerated in 1995 by DNA evidence.
	www.cbc.ca /story/news/national/1998/02/02/morin980202a.html (145 words)

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