[news] Innocent Aboriginal Man Seeking Judicial Review for Racist Wrongful Conviction

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

John Moore, an Ojibway man from Serpent River First Nation, spent 10 years (from 1978 to 1988) in Millhaven, for a murder he did not commit. John Moore is asking the Justice Department to review his unconstitutional 2nd degree murder conviction.

After being sentence in 1978, the law under which he was tried was repealed in 1987. "If he were to go to trial today on exactly the same facts and evidence, the murder charge would never get past the stage of a preliminary inquiry.

  


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