Real Justice: Fourteen and Sentenced to Death
Real Justice: Fourteen and Sentenced to Death

Author: Bill Swan

Publisher: Lorimer

Published: 2012-03-14

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13: 1459400747

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At fourteen, Steve Truscott was a typical teenager in rural Ontario in the fifties, mainly concerned about going fishing, playing football, and racing bikes with his friends. One summer evening, his twelve-year-old classmate, Lynne Harper, asked for a lift to the nearby highway on his bicycle and Steve agreed. Unfortunately, that made Steve the last person known to see Lynne alive. His world collapsed around him when he was arrested and then convicted of killing Lynne Harper. The penalty at the time was death by hanging. Although the sentence was changed to life in prison, Steve suffered for years behind bars for a murder he didn't commit. When his case gained national attention, the Supreme Court of Canada reviewed the evidence -- and confirmed his conviction. It took over forty years and a determination to prove his innocence for him to finally clear his name. He has since received an apology and compensation for his ordeal. In this book, young readers will discover how an innocent boy was presumed guilty by the justice system, and how in the end, that same justice system, prodded by Truscott and his lawyers, was able to acknowledge the terrible wrong done to him. [Fry reading level - 4.8

Innocence Lost
Innocence Lost

Author: Beverley Cooper

Publisher:

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781897289365

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The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and the WGBH Educational Foundation provide an online supplement to the "Frontline" television program entitled "Innocence Lost the Plea." The program originally aired on May 27, 1997. The supplement and program focused on the case of the Little Rascals Day Care in Edenton, North Carolina. The owners and staff members were charged with 400 counts child sexual abuse against 29 children. Profiles of the defendants, a timeline of the case, and other materials are available online.

The Trial of Steven Truscott
The Trial of Steven Truscott

Author: Isabel Lebourdais

Publisher: Toronto ; Montreal : McClelland and Stewart

Published: 1966

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13:

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In 1960 at the age of 14, Steven Truscott was sentenced to death for the murder of Lynne Harper, aged 12yrs. Truscott was in a death cell for most of 4 months; then his sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. He spent the next 3 years in the Guelph Training School, and in January 1963 was transferred to the federal penitentiary at Kingston, Ontario. But was he guilty? The author reviews the case and presents evidence of his innocence.

A Viable Suspect
A Viable Suspect

Author: Barry Ruhl

Publisher: FriesenPress

Published: 2014-10-29

Total Pages: 195

ISBN-13: 1460247469

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For more than 30 years, retired Ontario Provincial Police Sergeant Barry Ruhl has believed that a criminal with whom he had a violent encounter early in his career might be responsible for a string of unsolved murders of young women in Ontario, including the 1959 death of 12-year-old Lynne Harper. The only suspect ever investigated in that sensational case was 14-year-old Steven Truscott, who was convicted and sentenced to hang before being cleared almost 50 years later. But in the 1980s, Ruhl had approached his superiors with a theory about an alternative suspect in the Harper murder and other similar cases. A Viable Suspect tells the story of how Ruhl arrived at his conclusions, his frustrated attempts to prompt the OPP to thoroughly investigate Talbot and the tragic irony of how, just when it seemed police were finally taking Ruhl’s theory seriously, the suspect slipped out of reach, permanently.

The Steven Truscott Story
The Steven Truscott Story

Author: Bill Trent

Publisher: Manitoba Department of Education, Special Materials Services, 1979?] (Winnipeg : Xerox of Canada)

Published: 1975

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 9780671802264

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Searching for Justice
Searching for Justice

Author: Fred Kaufman

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2005-01-01

Total Pages: 377

ISBN-13: 0802090516

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The Honourable Fred Kaufman has been a distinguished figure in Canadian law for a half century. Born into a middle-class Jewish family in mid-1920s Vienna, Kaufman escaped to England on the eve of the Second World War. In 1940, he was interned as an 'enemy alien' and sent to Canada. Released in 1942, Kaufman stayed in Canada where he went on to university and law school in Montreal. Kaufman was called to the Bar of Quebec in 1955 and practiced criminal law for eighteen years, taking part in many of the famous cases of that period. In 1960, he secured the release of a young Pierre Elliott Trudeau from prison, and in 1973, Trudeau returned the favour by personally informing Kaufman of his appointment to the Quebec Court of Appeal, where he served for eighteen years, including one as Acting Chief Justice of Quebec. Since his retirement in 1991, Kaufman has led numerous commissions and inquiries, most notably the investigation into the wrongful conviction of Guy Paul Morin and the two-year reassessment of the Steven Truscott case. Searching for Justice is Kaufman's remarkable story in his own words. It is the tale of adversity overcome in a crucial period of Canadian legal history.

Real Justice: Convicted for Being Mi'kmaq
Real Justice: Convicted for Being Mi'kmaq

Author: Bill Swan

Publisher: James Lorimer & Company

Published: 2013-03-01

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 1459404408

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When a black teen was murdered in a Sydney, Cape Breton park late one night, his young companion, Donald Marshall Jr., became a prime suspect. Sydney police coached two teens to testify against Donald which helped convict him of a murder he did not commit. He spent 11 years in prison until he finally got a lucky break. Not only was he eventually acquitted of the crime, but a royal commission inquiry into his wrongful conviction found that a non-aboriginal youth would not have been convicted in the first place. Donald became a First Nations activist and later won a landmark court case in favour of native fishing rights. He was often referred to as the "reluctant hero" of the Mi'kmaq community.

Steven Truscott
Steven Truscott

Author: Nate Hendley

Publisher:

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 9781927400210

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Imagine taking a classmate on a bike ride one spring evening. In the days to follow, the classmate is found dead, and a 14-year-old stand accused of rape and murder. Such was the fate of Steven Truscott, living with his family on an Army base in small-town Ontario in 1959. Readers will learn the shocking true story of a terrible case of injustice and the decades-long fight to clear Truscott's name.

Drop Dead
Drop Dead

Author: Lorna Poplak

Publisher: Dundurn

Published: 2017-07-29

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 1459738233

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From Confederation in 1867 until the abolition of the death penalty in 1976, 704 people were hanged in Canada. The book examines how trial, conviction, and punishment operated then, and the relevance of capital punishment today. It profiles notable individuals: victims, murderers, judges, jurors, the wrongfully convicted ... and the hangman.