Wednesday Talk: Sept. 18, 2024, 10am-12pm – hybrid
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September 18 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Speaker: Kent Roach, Law, University of Toronto
Topic: “Wrongfully Convicted: Lessons from the Canadian Registry”
Abstract: This talk will discuss some of the findings from the Canadian Registry of Wrongful Convictions which has recorded close to 90 remedied wrongful convictions. Among topics discussed will be why do people who are innocent plead guilty and why do we convict people for crimes that did not happen. Canada’s efforts to prevent and remedy wrongful convictions will be discussed in a comparative context.
Bio: Kent Roach, F.R.S.C., C.M. is a Professor of Law at the University of Toronto, editor of the Criminal Law Quarterly and co-founder of the Canadian Registry of Wrongful Convictions www.wrongfulconvictions.ca. He has served as research director for both the Goudge Inquiry that examine how pediatric forensic pathology contributed to wrongful convictions and to Justices LaForme’s and Westmoreland-Traoré’s report A Miscarriages of Justice Commission (2021). His most recent book is Wrongfully Convicted: Guilty Pleas, Imagined Crimes and What Canada Must Do To Safeguard Justice, published by Simon and Schuster in 2023. He is working on Justice for Some: A Comparative Study of Wrongful Convictions, scheduled for publication by Cambridge University Press is 2025.
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The deadline to register is the Monday before the event at noon. The Zoom link will be sent to registrants only.
