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Guy Paul Morin
Guy Paul Morin is a Canadian who was wrongly convicted of the October 1984 rape and murder of his nine-year-old next-door neighbour, Christine Jessop of Queensville, north of Toronto, Ontario. DNA testing led to a subsequent overturning of this verdict. As of 2014, no one else has been charged with Jessop's murder.
Murder of Christine Jessop.
On October 3, 1984, Jessop was dropped off at her home from her school bus with both of her parents out
six exonerations in Canadian history, including high profile cases such as those involving David Milgaard, Guy Paul Morin, Steven Truscott, Roméo Phillion, and several victims of disgraced pathologist Charles Smith.
History.
Innocence Canada was founded in February 1993 as the Association in Defence of the Wrongly Convicted (AIDWYC) by a group of volunteers who organized the Justice for Guy Paul Morin Committee after Morin's 1992 wrongful conviction. Founded the same month that Morin was released on bail pending appeal, the AIDWYC decided to broaden its mandate