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The wrongful conviction of Guy Paul Morin is not an aberration.
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The wrongful conviction of Guy Paul Morin is not an aberration. It is the result of systemic problems rooted deep within the criminal justice system. Many of these failings are connected to serious errors of judgment, often resulting from lack of objectivity, rather than out right malevolence.1 These errors in judgment are commonplace in the criminal justice system largely because of the high levels of discretion that numerous justice system officials are afforded. Discretion is the power to decide which rules apply to a given situation and whether or not to apply them.2 Reiss (1974) suggests that discretionary justice exists whenever decisions made in criminal cases are not legally or practically open to re-examination.3 As many justice system actors operate largely under the radar, their position of low visibility leaves potential for errors, whether unconscious or malicious, to go unnoticed. If these errors were simple random human errors the...
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