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I'm absolutely delighted by
Maryanne Garry's decision to start a well- respected project such as the
Innocence Project in New Zealand (May 17). We're fortunate to have a well-
respected and renowned expert available to head this much-needed team, and
her insight into ``recovered memory'', witness credibility in historical
cases, and the unethical behaviour of counsellors and therapists that can
gravely affect the outcome of major cases, will be a real asset. Though it's extremely
disappointing that miscarriages of justice keep occurring because of the
failure by police and the Crown to investigate evidence, alibis, phone and
computer records adequately, or indeed to acknowledge negative dna evidence
because they believe in a person's guilt from the outset, a positive move
such as this might be what is needed to raise public confidence that a check
is being kept on poor police investigations. With the release of David Bain,
and the huge cloud that will forever remain over the Peter Ellis conviction,
it's obvious that we've had enough of malicious and pyrrhic prosecutions, and
the subsequent waste of taxpayer dollars, along with the psychological
destruction of wrongfully accused individuals and their families. |
