Thursday, October 21, 2010

Wrongfully convicted man gets $4.25M from Ont.

A Toronto man who was wrongfully convicted of killing his four-year-old niece because of testimony by now disgraced pathologist Charles Smith will get $4.25 million in compensation, Ontario Attorney General Chris Bentley announced Thursday.

William Mullins-Johnson spent 12 years in prison after he was convicted in 1994 on evidence from the doctor that suggested he had raped and strangled his niece, Valin.

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2010/10/21/toronto-smith-pathologist-mullins-johnson.html?ref=rss#ixzz131JqbIzz

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Good for him. There's a lot of talk on the airwaves today about capital punishment in light of the case of Colonel Williams. Let`s not get carried away with the desire for vengeance. This can never be allowed to happen in Canada. There can never be a justicfication for state-sanctioned killing. Two wrongs do not make a right.

ridenrain said...

Put it up for a referendom. I'm tired of parties telling me what I should think.
There's a hell of a distance between this fellow and the number of real monsters we found recently.