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liens
Liens aux sites web sur des questions
d'importance pour le cas de Sebastian et d'Atif
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the new documentary
film "mr big":
www.mrbigthemovie.com false
confessions and wrongful imprisonment brought to you
by the RCMP
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The Burns / Rafay case on other websites:
Injusticebusters page
on Atif and Sebastian
Partenia page
on Atif and Sebastian
Canadian
Coalition Against the Death Penalty
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Court Rulings in Canada – Burns
/ Rafay case:
Court
of Appeal, British Columbia, 1997 file 399
Court
of Appeal, British Columbia, 1997 file 395
Supreme
Court of Canada, 2001
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“Mr. Big” undercover
operations:
Links related to the undercover
police tactics used in this case, or to other similar
methods.
Injusticebusters.com
A website devoted to justice issues in Canada and around the world.
The most comprehensive online collection of information about “Mr. Big” operations,
including many other cases in which the “Mr. Big” tactic was used.
Landmark
ruling in an American case in which similar tactics
were used in an undercover operation.
This ruling came out against the use of these tactics to elicit confessions.
Seabstian and Atif’s “confessions” were admitted in American
court, despite having been elicited using methods illegal in the U.S.,
because the methods were legal in Canada, where the operation took place.
Mentuck
decision
The court ruling in the Mentuck case – a Canadian case where the police
used the “Mr. Big” operation.
In this ruling, the judge criticized the tactics.
Transcript
from CBC program “Disclosure” about the
Mentuck case and “Mr. Big” undercover operations
O.N.E.
ruling on publication ban
O.N.E. was a juvenile who was arrested and tried following a confession elicited
during a “Mr. Big” operation.
She was a juvenile at the time, and confessed to stabbing the victim, who had
not been stabbed.
A publication ban was put in place, preventing reporters from describing the
undercover methods used.
“Supreme
Court strikes down undercover operation bans”,
CBC News, 15 Nov., 2001
“Jury
told about sting operation.” CBC News, 7
Feb., 2000
CBC new article regarding the Mentuck trial
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Wrongful convictions links:
Information on wrongful convictions
projects, statistics, and studies.
Northwestern
University’s Center on Wrongful Convictions
Report
of the Working Group on the Prevention of Miscarriages
of Justice
The report produced by a group formed in Canada with the purpose of examining
the institutional problem of wrongful convictions in Canada.
The report was produced in 2004.
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False confessions links:
Articles, studies and websites
about false confessions issues.
Northwestern
University’s Center on Wrongful Convictions
page regarding false confessions
Homepage
of Richard A. Leo
the false confessions expert who was to have testified in Sebastian and Atif’s
trial
Homepage
of Steven Drizin
false confessions expert
Homepage
of Saul Kassin
Professor of Psychology and expert on false confessions, Williams College
Research
report on false confessions
By Rob Warden, Executive Director, Center on WrongfulConvictions, Bluhm Legal
Clinic, Northwestern University School of Law
“The
Problem of False Confessions in the Post-DNA World”
by Steven A. Drizin and Richard A. Leo, false confessions experts
“False
Confessions: Some Developmental and Forensic Considerations.”
By Steven A. Drizin, Northwestern University School of Law
“The
Psychology of False Confessions.”
By Richard Conti, Journal of Credibility Assessment and Witness Psychology
“False
Confessions: Annotated Clinical Research”
by Joe Wheeler Dixon, PhD, JD: Psychology and Law
“Innocent
Truth about False Confessions”
by Steve Chapman
A columnist from The Washington Times argues in favor of the admission of expert
evidence regarding false confessions.
“UnTrue
confessions: Legal system plagued by growing number of
false admissions by defendants.”
By John Wilkens, San Diego Union Tribune |
