"In this country, we have the famous three M's David Milgaard, Donald Marshall and Guy Paul Morin. In Alberta, Willie Nepoose. All of them were charged and convicted not just of any crime, but of murder. Every murder case attracts great scrutiny, evidence is weighed meticulously, the trials are long, the accused always has counsel, and appeals are the rule, not the exception.

And yet, though innocent, they were convicted. Why? Well, for starters, Donald Marshall and Willie Nepoose were aboriginal, and poor. David Milgaard was young and poor and worst, a "hippie." Guy Paul Morin lived "alone with his mother" and was a French Canadian tried by a jury of his peers who were not."

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