If Canadian courts sometimes wrongly convict then perhaps foreign courts do the same? That's why saying Canadians abroad convicted and sentenced to prison must admit guilt before being allowed to apply to return to Canada is wrong:
http://mobile.thestar.com/mobile/NEWS/article/735273
The Ontario Court of Appeal has exonerated a Trenton woman in the 1996 death of her infant son, acknowledging she was wrongly prosecuted with flawed evidence from notorious pathologist Dr. Charles Smith.
Smith had ruled that Sherry Sherret's four-month old son Joshua had been smothered. She was convicted of infanticide and spent almost a year in jail. Child protection authorities put her older son in foster care and Sherret was later forced to give him up for adoption.
"Fresh evidence has shown she was the victim of a miscarriage of justice," Justice Marc Rosenberg said Monday in overturning her conviction.
This was the second wrongful conviction involving Smith, who has retired and lives in Victoria. William Mullins-Johnson, who had been convicted of murdering his niece on the strength of Smith's evidence, was acquitted last year.
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