This document discusses various systemic issues within the Canadian criminal justice system that can contribute to wrongful convictions, including tunnel vision, pressure on police to secure convictions, unreliable eyewitness identification, false confessions obtained through coercion, inadequate defense for marginalized groups, and the use of junk science and informants. It provides examples of wrongful conviction cases like Donald Marshall Jr. and Guy Paul Morin to illustrate these problems. The document argues that wrongful convictions harm not only the innocent person convicted but their families, communities, and faith in the justice system. It also mentions the Association in Defense of the Wrongly Convicted, which works to prevent and address wrongful convictions in Canada.

1. NOT INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY Wrongful Convictions In The Criminal Justice System

2. MAJOR RESEARCH QUESTION Can We Blame Wrongful Convictions on Simple ‘Human Errors’ or are they a result of Deeper Problems within the Canadian Criminal Justice System?