Dr. Joyce Milgaard!
Last week, Joyce Milgaard received an honorary doctor of Law degree at the University of Manitoba. She spoke at the Duckworth Center to an audience of 2500 people, encouraging them to support an independent panel that would review claims of wrongful conviction. England, Australia and New Zealand already have such boards but the United States and Canada are far behindin that respect. This is something that AIDWYC (The Association in Defense of the Wrongly Convicted) has advocated for years.
It's about time that Joyce received some accolades for her years of labor after the way that she has been attacked in the Inquiry for forcing the police and justice system to do its job.
Sigridmac
It's about time that Joyce received some accolades for her years of labor after the way that she has been attacked in the Inquiry for forcing the police and justice system to do its job.
Sigridmac
posted by Sigrid Macdonald @ 6:50 AM
3 Comments:
At 12:18 PM,
Anonymous said…
Hi Sigrid
The times they are a-changing
aidwic is clearing other cases.
And daniel Wood along with his
Aidwic lawyer Wolsh was Stayed
on the Muder charge. But he still
has other issues.
Also in ontario others have been cleared ....Cheer,s
DAn
At 3:45 PM,
Sigrid Macdonald said…
This is so true, Dan.
But we need more AIDWYCs, more people power and more understanding that what happened to David was not such a rarity.
Nice to hear from you :)
Sigrid
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