PUBLISHER'S NOTE: In her July 24, 2024 story headed, "Did Toronto police ‘bury’ evidence of this girl’s real killer? Shocking tape of admitted abuser never turned over to Crown, defence," Toronto Star Courts reporter Betsy Powell reported that although Rees, 61, spent 23 years in prison for the 1989 murder of 10-year-old Darla Thurrott, it was only later, with the help of Innocence Canada that he learned Toronto police had never turned over a startlingly incriminating interview with another man. That taped interview is expected to be at the heart of Tim Rees's appeal, which is scheduled to begin tomorrow (December 10) at Osgoode Hall in Toronto, before three justices of the Ontario Court of Appeal. (Innocence Canada lawyers, James Lockyer and Jerome Kennedy will be representing Mr. Rees.) The spectre of an innocent man serving 23 years behind bars as a child killer before being released on parole in these circumstances, could place the Rees case among the most notorious miscarriages in Canadian history. Indeed, as Reporter Powell notes, if the panel of three judges agrees, Rees’s case will join the list of Canada’s highest-profile wrongful convictions, alongside those of names like Donald Marshall Jr, Guy Paul Morin, David Milgaard and Steven Truscott."
PUBLISHER'S NOTE: I am monitoring this case/issue/resource. Keep your eye on the Charles Smith Blog for reports on developments. The Toronto Star, my previous employer for more than twenty incredible years, has put considerable effort into exposing the harm caused by Dr. Charles Smith and his protectors - and into pushing for reform of Ontario's forensic pediatric pathology system. The Star has a "topic" section which focuses on recent stories related to Dr. Charles Smith. It can be found at: http://www.thestar.com/topic/charlessmith. Information on "The Charles Smith Blog Award"- and its nomination process - can be found at: http://smithforensic.blogspot.com/2011/05/charles-smith-blog-award-nominations.html Please send any comments or information on other cases and issues of interest to the readers of this blog to: hlevy15@gmail.com. Harold Levy: Publisher: The Charles Smith Blog.
- SEE BREAKDOWN OF SOME OF THE ON-GOING INTERNATIONAL CASES (OUTSIDE OF THE CONTINENTAL USA) THAT I AM FOLLOWING ON THIS BLOG, AT THE LINK BELOW: HL:
https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/120008354894645705/4704913685758792985
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FINAL WORD: (Applicable to all of our wrongful conviction cases): "Whenever there is a wrongful conviction, it exposes errors in our criminal legal system, and we hope that this case — and lessons from it — can prevent future injustices."
Lawyer Radha Natarajan:
Executive Director: New England Innocence Project;
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FINAL, FINAL WORD: "Since its inception, the Innocence Project has pushed the criminal legal system to confront and correct the laws and policies that cause and contribute to wrongful convictions. They never shied away from the hard cases — the ones involving eyewitness identifications, confessions, and bite marks. Instead, in the course of presenting scientific evidence of innocence, they've exposed the unreliability of evidence that was, for centuries, deemed untouchable." So true!
Christina Swarns: Executive Director: The Innocence Project;
