Comments on: Another Manitoba conviction overturned http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/10/23/another-manitoba-conviction-overturned/ Canada's only national weekly current affairs magazine. Wed, 26 Oct 2011 16:13:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Fred - Brandon MB http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/10/23/another-manitoba-conviction-overturned/comment-page-1/#comment-195504 Fred - Brandon MB Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:39:55 +0000 http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=88781#comment-195504 I was the next door neighbour to Unger's co-convicted, and lived in the community where this happened. Like everyone in our community we followed the case closely and are aware of the facts never entered into evidence. I am not the gullible one. That is the people who think Unger is innocent. If you believe that it is possible for the innocent to be wrongly convicted, why not that the guilty can be wrong exonerated? I was the next door neighbour to Unger's co-convicted, and lived in the community where this happened. Like everyone in our community we followed the case closely and are aware of the facts never entered into evidence.

I am not the gullible one. That is the people who think Unger is innocent. If you believe that it is possible for the innocent to be wrongly convicted, why not that the guilty can be wrong exonerated?

]]> By: jurist http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/10/23/another-manitoba-conviction-overturned/comment-page-1/#comment-195502 jurist Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:09:54 +0000 http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=88781#comment-195502 The injustice is even worse than the court admitted. An innocent man went to jail (I have worked for years in the legal system and know how easy that is to do) and a guilty one has gone free and after all this time will probably never be caught. Fred if you are assuming that the legal system always gets the right person then I have a bridge in New York you may want to buy. Your type of gulibility should always be taken advantage of. The injustice is even worse than the court admitted. An innocent man went to jail (I have worked for years in the legal system and know how easy that is to do) and a guilty one has gone free and after all this time will probably never be caught. Fred if you are assuming that the legal system always gets the right person then I have a bridge in New York you may want to buy. Your type of gulibility should always be taken advantage of.

]]> By: Fred - Brandon MB http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/10/23/another-manitoba-conviction-overturned/comment-page-1/#comment-195503 Fred - Brandon MB Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:29:56 +0000 http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=88781#comment-195503 And a guilty man goes free. Kyle Unger should not become a poster boy for the "wrongfully convicted" because he is a confessed murderer. He is being released for three reasons. The location of the murder didn't leave much in the way of forensic evidence; his co-convicted (who implicated him) is deceased and therefore unable to testify; and his confession (although freely given) has been discredited. So a convicted murderer goes free because of the "innocence project", even though he is not innocent. What do we say to his next victim and her family? What do we say to Brigitte Grenier's family? They are the real sufferers here. Unger simply spent time in prison paying for his crime. I hope that we don't compound this tragedy by paying him compensation. If we won't let Thatcher profit from his crime, we shouldn't let Unger either. And a guilty man goes free. Kyle Unger should not become a poster boy for the "wrongfully convicted" because he is a confessed murderer. He is being released for three reasons. The location of the murder didn't leave much in the way of forensic evidence; his co-convicted (who implicated him) is deceased and therefore unable to testify; and his confession (although freely given) has been discredited.

So a convicted murderer goes free because of the "innocence project", even though he is not innocent.

What do we say to his next victim and her family? What do we say to Brigitte Grenier's family? They are the real sufferers here. Unger simply spent time in prison paying for his crime.

I hope that we don't compound this tragedy by paying him compensation. If we won't let Thatcher profit from his crime, we shouldn't let Unger either.

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