During the course of a person's life it is not entirely uncommon for
             them to be accused of committing a crime that they are most certainly
             innocent of. In most cases the accusations are disregarded and the individual
             is largely unaffected by it. Unfortunately though, there are many poor souls
             who are not so lucky and have their lives forever changed due to these
             miscarriages of justice. "Manufacturing Guilt: Wrongful Convictions in
             Canada explores the brutal processes in which several innocent men were
             sentenced unjustly for crimes they didn't commit While "unavoidable
             human error" is always a possibility, a careful study of the cases involved
             shows how innocent people were unjustly accused and the subject of
             extreme discrimination due to their social differences from society. Even at
             a cursory glance it appears obvious that marginalized people are at the heart
             of wrongful convictions and suffer the prejudice of the criminal justice
             system from the time they are suspected of the crime and even after they are
             Even before a particular crime is committed, there are certain people in
             society that is easier and more convenient to blame than others. These
             individuals due to their race, class, or lack of social skills are targeted from
             the beginning and generally assumed guilty on sight. As with the Marshall
             case, where it was evident that a young man of native descent was blamed
             for murder simply for the fact that it was convenient to do so. As the author
             points out the Marshall case took place in a small town where murders are
             rare and so the public pressure was so great on the police that an arrest had
             to "be made and the sooner the better ." Often a police force in a small town
             is quite inexperienced and so they will try to find a suspect as quickly as
             possible in an attempt to quell the concerns of the community. Th
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