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Pa. looks to form innocence pa
state commission that would investigate at least eight cases of wrongful conviction may widen courtroom interpretations of the state’s post-conviction release and DNA testing laws.
A bill approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee in mid-February would form a 30-member Innocence Commission, whose members would be appointed by the governor, members of the General Assembly and the chief justice of the state Supreme Court.
At least eight cases in Pennsylvania — the closest to this area are in Cumberland and Adams counties and Pittsburgh — involve a person wrongfully convicted a... Read more
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25 April 2006
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Two Quebec City police officer
MONTREAL (CP) - Two Quebec City police officers have been suspended without pay for racial profiling.
Jean-Francois Caron and Alain S. Pelletier pulled over a Haitian woman and her two sons in April 2003 due mainly to the colour of their skin, according to a police ethics report released Tuesday. The police officers weren't motivated by contempt or hatred, "but more so by stereotypes linked to skin colour, age, the location of the interception and a criminal activity," Pierre Gagne, president of the ethics committee, said in the report.
Gagne found in his report that the woman was not pulled over for security reasons or for the protection of the public.
There had been criminal activity committed by black suspects shortly beforehand, the committee found, and the woman was stopped simply because of her skin colour.
The committee imposed five-day suspensions without pay on the officers.
The incident was aggravated by the fact that the officers tried to justify their actions in a report they wrote afterwards.
The officers "knew instinctively that their behaviour was problematic," Gagne found.
They showed a lack of understanding of the problem of racial profiling and the indignation felt by the woman they pulled over, he wrote.
Earlier this month the woman and her sons launched a $250,000 lawsuit against the two police officers and the city of Quebec.
The lawsuit alleges that the incident with the two officers reinforced among the two boys the feeling of being marginalized. It claims the boys continue to suffer insomnia and nightmares and their mother various stress-related effects.
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