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	Last Seen With The Deceased...
		Steven was back at the football field at about eight, where he spent a little time chatting to friends, telling them he had dropped Lynne off at the highway, then he headed home and arrived there just before half past eight.
		Truscott testified to Steven’s behaviour on the day of the murder, and also said that the tear in his new trousers and the scratch on his leg had come from a tumble off his bike before he had gone out that evening.
		Steven’s explanation for this request was that he had told the police he had waved to Arnold, but now believed he was mistaken, it must have been Gordon Logan he waved to.
	parmaq.com /truecrime/LastSeenWith.htm (7795 words)

	CBC News: the fifth estate: The Steven Truscott Story - The Transcript
		Steven was popular and athletic, usually at the river with the other boys, or on the playing fields at the school.
		The prosecution would later claim that Steven Truscott lured Lynn down the lane, somehow knocked her unconscious, dragged her through a barbed wire fence, then carried her, limp and bleeding, into the bush where he raped and strangled her.
		If there was one piece of evidence that sealed Steven Truscott's fate it was the report by the pathologist, Dr. Penistan, that she died shortly before eight o'clock in the evening of June ninth, 1959.
	www.cbc.ca /fifth/truscott/transcript.html (5330 words)

	Prof. Alan Young Sees Positive Sign for Steven Truscott (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Truscott took an important step forward on that road yesterday when Justice Minister Irwin Cotler announced there is reason to believe his conviction for capital murder in the slaying of 12-year-old Lynne Harper was a miscarriage of justice.
		Truscott, then a Grade 7 student, was arrested before a single witness statement was taken, his lawyers noted in their application to Cotler.
		Steven Truscott, 14-year-old son of a base warrant officer, gives her a ride on the crossbars of his bicycle, to the intersection of a county road and Highway 8.
	osgoode.yorku.ca /media2.nsf/0/6bb4d18c0b8c6f1185256f3c0060d303?OpenDocument (2878 words)

	"Until You Are Dead"
		As most people know, Steven Truscott was convicted for the rape and murder of Lynne Harper in 1959, and, at the age of 14, sentenced to be hanged.
		As Steven passed quietly through the prison system as a model inmate his case became a bestseller and was argued before a special sitting of the Supreme Court.
		Steven’s experience at the hands of a drug-happy prison psychiatrist is typical of the Catch-22 situation faced by a sane person in such an insane situation: guilty if he confessed, and guilty if he professed his innocence.
	www.goodreports.net /reviews/untilyouaredead.htm (624 words)

	Petition for Steven Truscott
		Steven approached AIDWYC (Association in Defense of the Wrongly Convicted), a group of lawyers and concerned Canadians who have worked successfully to overturn the wrongful convictions of such individuals as David Milgaard and Guy-Paul Morin, and they agreed to take on Steven’s case.
		Truscott and his AIDWYC team, is an appeal to the Ontario Court of Appeal.
		Truscott has already been forced to wait 45-years for what the Minister of Justice has concluded was a “miscarriage of justice likely occurred”.
	truscott.peelschools.org (514 words)

	Justice Delayed: Steven Truscott's 45-Year Wait To Clear His Name (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		In 1959, at the age of 14, Steven Truscott was convicted and sentenced to hang for the rape and murder of his 12-year-old classmate Lynne Harper.
		Steven Truscott along with his lawyers expected the minister of justice would quash the murder conviction and send the matter back for a new trial in the same Goderich courtroom where Truscott was convicted back in 1959.
		Steven Truscott addressed the AIDWYC Annual General Meeting on November 27, 2004 by stating that, “after 45 years I thought my case might be reaching an end.” Although the case has been reviewed by 19 members of the judiciary over the past 45 years, it is still going on.
	www.criminaljustice.org /public.nsf/0/7dbd6fbc84b02be685256fdc0052510b?OpenDocument (4221 words)

	injusticebusters 1998 > > Steven Truscott: The incredibly long struggle to clear his name (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Steven Truscott, who has lived in Guelph under an assumed name for more than three decades, has consistently maintained his innocence since June 1959, after the body of Lynne Harper, 12, was found in a bush near the Clinton air force base where she and Truscott lived.
		Truscott was observed giving Harper a ride on his bicycle the day she was last seen alive in June 1959.
		Truscott has lived in Guelph since 1970, raising three children with his wife Marlene, who said yesterday the wait for a decision from the justice minister is weighing heavily on her family.
	www.injusticebusters.com /index.htm/Truscott.htm (2009 words)

	Toronto Sun Columnist: Michele Mandel - Two lives taken
		Steven Truscott was a popular and athletic 14-year-old, the owner of the green racer bike.
		Truscott said he rode Harper to the highway because she had wanted to visit the ponies down the road.
		Truscott's guilt had hinged on the time of death as well as the eyewitness accounts of children, but his lawyers soon discovered enough to throw almost everything into serious doubt.
	www.canoe.ca /NewsStand/Columnists/Toronto/Michele_Mandel/2004/10/29/pf-690976.html (2308 words)

	Lakeshore Advance, Grand Bend, ON (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		It was from this bridge that Truscott saw Lynn Harper enter the car on Highway 8 on the night she was murdered in 1959.
		Truscott was 14 years old when he was sentenced to hang for the rape of his 12 year old classmate Lynn harper.
		Steven's wife of 34 years, Marlene has been the driving force behind the decades of battles to clear her husband's name.
	www.lakeshoreadvance.com /story.php?id=124949 (764 words)

	Spoke Online: News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Although Truscott’s death sentence was commuted shortly after it was handed down, he did spend the next 10 years of his young life behind bars.
		Truscott’s wife Marlene and their three children have worked tirelessly to raise the profile of Steven’s case.
		The Truscotts couldn't tell me much since the details of the case are pretty much under lock and key while they await the results of the judicial review.
	www.conestogac.on.ca /spoke/pages/news/news-truscottawaiting.html (954 words)

	Guelph.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Steven Truscott was convicted of murdering Lynne Harper on June 9, 1959.
		Steven can even recollect the conversation he had with lynne during the bike ride after they sat waiting to leave (lynne was mad at her parents, she was going to the pony farm, etc).
		I believe Steven Truscott to be innocent of this crime, and since I ventured on here this morning his case is to go to the Ontario Court of Appeals, I just caught the tail end of the announcement, I did catch that this could take two or more years, all concerned need stamina.
	www.guelph.com /bulletinboard-thread.cfm?threadid=207 (14996 words)

	NCADP: National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Truscott conviction remains a seminal case in the argument against capital punishment years after death sentences were abolished.
		The crown contended that on June 9, 1959, a lustful Truscott took the younger Harper into the woods, raped her and then, perhaps in a panic, murdered her, silencing the only witness to his crime.
		Truscott told her he had "a wonderful wife, a wonderful family, wonderful children, a good job and lots of friends.
	www.ncadp.org /news_headline_6_19_2004_truscott.html (1515 words)

	CBC News: the fifth estate: The Steven Truscott Story
		ORIGINALLY AIRED: March 2000 on CBC-TV : April 2004 on CBC-TV Forty-five years ago, Steven Truscott was sentenced to hang for the murder of 12 year-old Lynn Harper.
		the fifth estate uncovered evidence that showed the case against Truscott was dubious, at best.
		The Evidence - After the Trial - The Movement to Clear Truscott - The Final Decision
	www.cbc.ca /fifth/truscott (99 words)

	Steven Truscott Wrongful Conviction Application (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		On September 30, 1959, 14-year-old Steven Murray Truscott was convicted of the murder of 12-year-old Lynne Harper.
		Truscott's case was referred to the Supreme Court of Canada.
		Steven Truscott was imprisoned for ten years; 1959 — 1969.
	canada.justice.gc.ca /en/news/nr/2004/doc_31272.html (429 words)

	Expert casts further doubt on science used to convict Steven Truscott (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		TORONTO (CP) - Some of the evidence used to convict Steven Truscott in 1959 was based on "entirely useless" science, and Crown prosecutors failed to pass along the revised data when he tried to appeal his conviction, court was told Tuesday.
		Truscott, charged in the rape and murder of 12-year-old Lynne Harper, was singled out and ultimately convicted on faulty evidence that included signs of "a very inexpert attempt (at) penetration" and the coroner's opinion that she died within a specific 30-minute time frame, said defence lawyer James Lockyer.
		Truscott, who was 14 at the time, was implicated in Harper's rape in part with medical evidence that he had lesions on his penis when he was arrested.
	www.canada.com /topics/news/national/story.html?id=5cca5e01-1571-435c-8de8-3526f507341c&k=79150 (648 words)

	Steven Truscott
		Truscott says that he "took her to the highway, turned around and rode slowly back toward the school." Remember we cannot believe something happened if the person doesn't tell us it happened.
		Truscott says that if he "intended" to kill Lynne Harper, he would not have been so stupid to drive her past a bunch of witnesses.
		Truscott explains to us that he used the word "again" on his parole application form because he was "thinking in terms of all those people who believed me guilty." However, we must remember that people's words will betray them.
	www.statementanalysis.com /truscott (2500 words)

	Clinton News-Record, Clinton, ON (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Steven Truscott (centre) shares a laugh with his daughter Lesley and eldest son Ryan Thursday during a press conference in front of his family home in Guelph.
		The Crown’s case in Steven’s 1959 trial was “built on a house of sand,” he says.
		Campbell says Truscott did not step forward until 1997, 28 years after his release after serving a 10-year sentence for capital murder, because he wanted to raise his family out of the spotlight.
	www.clintonnewsrecord.com /story.php?id=125227 (666 words)

	Gem Geek or Rare Bug - The Column: Our National Nightmare
		Steven was seen by friends in the local stream passing over the bridge to the highway with Lynne by at least three people, and Steven himself was back at the schoolyard unfazed within a half an hour of riding with her.
		By this time, Truscott had his sentence commuted to life and was in Collins Bay Penitentiary and—as the result of a book by crusading author Isabel Lebourdais (which she had to publish in Britain before she could convince Jack McLelland to publish it here)—had a Supreme Court appeal of his case.
		Truscott was eventually released on parole in 1969, where he moved to Guelph under an assumed name, took up a trade and married and had kids.
	www.dreaming.org /~graeme/archives/000080.html (2611 words)

	Steven Truscott wins new day in court - Topic Powered by eve community (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		OTTAWA - The federal minister of justice has sent the case of Steven Truscott to the Ontario Court of Appeal, 45 years after Truscott was sentenced to hang for the 1959 rape and murder of Lynne Harper.
		The decision means new life for Truscott's quest to prove he was wrongfully convicted by a justice system that seemed more interested in proving a 14-year-old boy guilty than conducting a thorough review of what happened on the day 12-year-old Harper disappeared.
		Truscott and the association's lawyers filed an appeal with the federal justice minister in November 2001, asking for a review of the case.
	discussions.bluerodeo.com /groupee/forums/a/tpc/f/9456025682/m/566109169 (756 words)

	Ont. Appeal Court begins review of Steven Truscott's 1959 murder conviction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		On Sept. 30, 1959, Truscott was just 14 when he was convicted and sentenced to hang for Harper's rape and murder, the youngest person ever sentenced to death in Canada.
		Although Truscott's appeal was denied on Jan. 21, 1960, his death sentence was commuted to life in prison.
		Truscott has always maintained his innocence and continued the fight to clear his name.
	www.canada.com /topics/news/national/story.html?id=00c231bf-c92e-4697-8661-d02dfb5ac9a8&k=1764 (636 words)

	Steven Truscott – Cotler wimps out (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Truscott was 14 years of age back in 1959 when he was arrested and charged with the capital murder of 12-year-old Lynn Harper, who was found raped and strangled.
		Evidence that supported Steven Truscott’s version of events of the day that Lynne Harper went missing; that was known to the prosecution but not disclosed to the defense was uncovered.
		By referring the matter to the Ontario Court of Appeal, the Steven Truscott case was just another example of the government getting themselves off the hook by leaving it to the courts.
	www.canadafreepress.com /2004/weinreb110404.htm (804 words)

	Articles and Issues
		Steven Truscott is part of the Canadian memory.
		He said it should be, that Steven Truscott was innocent and a Canadian hero.
		The program's co-producer, Theresa Burke, says Steven Truscott is a hero not because he was victimized by the justice system.
	www.interlog.com /~gilgames/deathp2.htm (817 words)

	Sympatico / MSN : News : CTV.ca: Review of Truscott case hailed as positive move
		Legal observers say there is room for optimism in the Steven Truscott case, despite fears it may drag on for at least two more years.
		Truscott was just 14 at the time and became the youngest Canadian ever on death row.
		Cotler said that because of "fresh evidence" in the case, he chose the appeal route because it's the only place where the admissibility of the evidence could be determined.
	sympaticomsn.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1098922325170_40?hub=topstories (923 words)

	Mapleleafweb.com: The Steven Truscott Case
		Steven Truscott was convicted of murdering Lynne Harper in 1959.
		Not long after that broadcast, in 2001, Steven Truscott filed an application for a retrial with the federal government.
		An history of the Truscott case, Truscott’s trial and conviction, his life in prison and on parole, as well as his appeals.
	www.mapleleafweb.com /education/spotlight/issue_59 (267 words)

	1959 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Truscott, now 61, was convicted and sentenced to hang in 1959 for the murder of his 12-year-old classmate Lynne Harper.
		TORONTO - When provincial police arrested Steven Truscott in 1959, one of the puzzles they had to solve was why the shy, athletic 14-year-old would murder...
		A woman who gave damning evidence at Steven Truscott's 1959 murder trial told a fellow student years later that police had the "wrong guy" behind bars.
	www.freedownloadsoft.com /news/1959.html (359 words)

	Justice Minister Concludes That Miscarriage Of Justice Likely Occurred In Steven Truscott Case (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Truscott's application for a wrongful conviction review and is referring the case to the Ontario Court of Appeal.
		Accordingly, the Minister, consistent with the recommendations of Justice Kaufman, has asked the Ontario Court of Appeal to hear the case as if it were an appeal of Steven Truscott's conviction.
		Truscott's conviction without an opportunity for a judicial determination on the admissibility of this new information,” said Minister Cotler.
	www.canada.justice.gc.ca /en/news/nr/2004/doc_31270.html (387 words)

	injusticebustersblog: Steven Truscott: 46 years and still waiting!
		Steve Truscott was on CBC this week-end and spoke along with other wrongfully convicted persons.
		Read Statement Analysis on the internet.Punch in Steve Truscott Murder then hit statement analysis.It analysis the statements made by Steve to the OPP.It states that he killed her after analysing his statements.I beleive he killed her too!
		stephen truscott is not guilty of the crime.
	injusticebusters.blogspot.com /2005/06/steven-truscott-46-years-and-still.html (2019 words)

	Steven Truscott's Long Ride Into History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		With the doubts that exist, the justice minister should use the power granted under Section 690 of the Criminal Code to have a complete review of the Truscott file.
		"Never mind the police saying Truscott did it, never mind the justice system convicting him, never mind the Supreme Court of Canada voting eight-to-one the conviction was sound, Sher's work, a hell of a book, triumphs in still raising all kinds of disturbing doubts, and I recommend you read it."
		This excellent, in-depth compilation of Steven Truscott’s very disturbing case keeps you absorbed and in disbelief: Where is the justice?” — Guy Paul Morin
	www.randomhouse.ca /features/steventruscott/reviews.html (489 words)

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