In today's Globe Dirk Derstine comments -- perhaps it did not make a difference in Rafferty but how many accused are convicted, wrongfully (?), because there were not the resources to, say, hire an expert or to rereview videos?
http://m.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/after-defending-a-child-killer-raffertys-lawyer-opens-up/article2431559/?service=mobile
"The biggest thing was not so much the amount of attention but the extraordinary volume of disclosure and the extraordinary amount of resources in the prosecution. I don't know that there's ever been a case in Canada that's had this much of an investigation behind it. We were given in the realm of 5 to 10 per cent of the resources the Crown attorneys had to prepare for this case. The amount of videotaped interviews alone eclipsed by a factor of six the amount of preparation hours I had."
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