Donald Marshall Jr., Symbol of Bias, Dies at 55
Jr. of Donald Marshall, a Mi& amp; #8217; Indian of the kmaq of which the illegal conviction for l' homicide has been transformed in a c& amp of cause; #233; l& amp; #232; bre in Canada, leading to a wide re-examination of the & amp of Nova Scotia; #8217; it arranges legislative and changes of s in Canada& amp; #8217; of survey of Nova Scotia, thursday, rules test s died to Sydney.
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Albert Canadian Lee/pressa, via Associated Press
Jr. of Donald Marshall in 1983.
Alive era 55 and in Membertou, Nova Scotia. Its sister, Roseanne Sylvester, have confirmed its dead women, saying to the pressa Canadian who have suffered from kidney breakdown, that she has connected to the drugs that of antirejection were taking since a double transplant of the lung six years ago. Behind schedule on the night of 28 May 1971, the Mr. Marshall and a friend, Sandy Seale, have gone to walk in a park of Sydney and have tried to steal a older man, Roy Ebsary, that he has extracted a blade and he has killed the Mr. Seale. Disconsiderando the Mr. Ebsary like suspicion, the police has decided that Mr. Marshall, known to they from run-ins the precedence, had killed its friend in a measure of the temper not explained. A giuria has accosentito and the Mr. Marshall has begun to serve a life imprisonment. It has been freed from the prison in 1982 after the Canadian mounted police real has examined its case and a year more successively the Court d' Appeal of has declared it to Nova Scotia not guilty dell' homicide. In the relative decision, however, the court has declared that the Mr. Marshall was & amp; #8220; l' author of its own misfortune& amp; #8221; and that one had been abortion of the justice here. A real Investigating committee more successively has criticized that which it finds like & amp; #8220; a error.& amp serious and fundamental; #8221; In a relationship of the seven-volume transported in 1990, it has said l' incompetenza of police and the & amp; #8220; racism& amp systematic; #8221; infecting the Department of Police, the legal system, the bureaucracy of government and even Mr. Marshall& amp; #8217; the s it possesses the lawyers was of incolpare of the conviction. & amp; #8220; The Jr. of put out of order Donald system of penal justice Marshall virtually every turn, from its arrest and illegal conviction for l' homicide in 1971 till and even beyond its acquittal from the Court d' Appeal in 1983, & amp; #8221; the declared relationship. A successive case of the supreme Court, citing Mr. Marshall& amp; #8217; arduous test of s several times, main to the changes in the rules of test survey. The proxies av