Comments on: a nation whispers, “we always knew that he’d go free” http://www.pzed.ca/words/2007/08/28/a-nation-whispered-they-always-new-hed-go-free/ what do you read, m'lord? Sun, 04 Oct 2009 00:35:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: jodi http://www.pzed.ca/words/2007/08/28/a-nation-whispered-they-always-new-hed-go-free/comment-page-1/#comment-13564 jodi Wed, 29 Aug 2007 17:38:03 +0000 http://www.pzed.ca/words/archives/2007/a-nation-whispered-they-always-new-hed-go-free/#comment-13564 Yes, the same limbo in which the Jessop family resides. That's what's most infuriating, and most heartbreaking: investigations coming to a halt, wasted time, chances to find the truth disintegrating, lost. We need a better system, a foolproof system that's built upon our knowledge of these failures. Yes, the same limbo in which the Jessop family resides. That’s what’s most infuriating, and most heartbreaking: investigations coming to a halt, wasted time, chances to find the truth disintegrating, lost. We need a better system, a foolproof system that’s built upon our knowledge of these failures.

]]> By: pzed http://www.pzed.ca/words/2007/08/28/a-nation-whispered-they-always-new-hed-go-free/comment-page-1/#comment-13559 pzed Wed, 29 Aug 2007 15:15:52 +0000 http://www.pzed.ca/words/archives/2007/a-nation-whispered-they-always-new-hed-go-free/#comment-13559 I considered saying something about the debt Canada owes to Steven Truscott, but it seemed kind of odd considering all he did was steadfastly proclaim his innocence. The fact that he has been acquitted certainly rights what seems an ancient wrong, but if you look at the CBC News <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/wrongfullyconvicted/" rel="nofollow">Wrongfully Convicted</a> page, it's pretty clear this kind of thing still happens. The other sad part of all this, which I didn't really know how to mention in my post, is the limbo to which that the Harper family is consigned. The court acquitted Truscott, but did not go so far as to declare him innocent, primarily because the evidence (including anything that might have been used to gather DNA samples) has been destroyed. There are two wrongs in this case, and while Truscott has been exonerated, the Harper family will never know who murdered their little girl. I considered saying something about the debt Canada owes to Steven Truscott, but it seemed kind of odd considering all he did was steadfastly proclaim his innocence. The fact that he has been acquitted certainly rights what seems an ancient wrong, but if you look at the CBC News Wrongfully Convicted page, it’s pretty clear this kind of thing still happens.

The other sad part of all this, which I didn’t really know how to mention in my post, is the limbo to which that the Harper family is consigned. The court acquitted Truscott, but did not go so far as to declare him innocent, primarily because the evidence (including anything that might have been used to gather DNA samples) has been destroyed. There are two wrongs in this case, and while Truscott has been exonerated, the Harper family will never know who murdered their little girl.

]]> By: jodi http://www.pzed.ca/words/2007/08/28/a-nation-whispered-they-always-new-hed-go-free/comment-page-1/#comment-13538 jodi Wed, 29 Aug 2007 03:09:08 +0000 http://www.pzed.ca/words/archives/2007/a-nation-whispered-they-always-new-hed-go-free/#comment-13538 I'm tearing up all over again reading this. To have this man's story, such a part of our collective consciousness, finally brought to its rightful end, it's almost like it makes us all better people, in a way. Does that make sense? I’m tearing up all over again reading this. To have this man’s story, such a part of our collective consciousness, finally brought to its rightful end, it’s almost like it makes us all better people, in a way. Does that make sense?

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