Click on the following link; The scrollable document is located after the line "The prosecution also apologized to Salmon for a miscarriage of justice that sent him to prison for four years." (Third paragraph); Go to the 'scribd' line. (Download...share...embed...tiny dark box within light box); Click on the tiny dark box within the light box on the far square. That will allow the document to fill the entire screen and make it easily readable. HL.
http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/ontario-man-exonerated-45-years-after-being-wrongly-convicted-of-killing-wife
PUBLISHER'S VIEW: " Despite the fact the document bears such a bland name "the factum" it is is a fascinating account of how an unfortunate medical event becomes twisted into an act of violence right from the outset where the pathologist "thinks dirty," how modern science - and impartial scientists - can reveal the medical truth, and how a noble individual can persist in asserting his innocence for decades in spite of a wall of disbelief. As lawyer James Lockyer says at the end of the factum: “Although he has endured these indignities with grace, Mr. Salmon should not have to face them any longer. He told the truth about Maxines’s death on the day it occurred and for the 45 years since then has tenaciously maintained his innocence. Modern medical science confirms the account of Maxine’s death that he gave to his family, the doctor, the police and the jury in 1971 and he respectfully requests an acquittal.” The Ontario Court of Appeal decision is a tribute to AIDWYC - The Association in defence of the wrongly convicted. Once again, as in the many Charles Smith cases it has successfully fought, it has secured an exoneration in a most difficult case and secured justice for someone who desperately needed and deserved it.
Harold Levy: Publisher. The Charles Smith Blog.
