- James Lockyer
James Lockyer is a
lawyer and a prominent social justice activist inCanada .He is the founding director of the
Association in Defence of the Wrongly Convicted (AIDWYC). He has been involved in exposing more than ten wrongful convictions in Canada, including the cases ofGuy Paul Morin ,David Milgaard ,Clayton Johnson andGregory Parsons . Several of these cases have become the subject of public inquiries.Mr. Lockyer has worked on behalf of
Steven Truscott , whose 1959 conviction of the murder ofLynne Harper came under review by theOntario Court of Appeal , and ofRobert Baltovich , whose murder conviction was quashed by the Ontario Court of Appeal in November, 2004. On August 28, 2007, the Ontario Court of Appeal acquitted Steven Truscott, concluding, "based on evidence that qualifies as fresh evidence in these proceedings, we are satisfied that Mr. Truscott's conviction was a miscarriage of justice and must be quashed". On April 22, 2008, Robert Baltovich was also acquitted in his retrial, after the Crown declined to present any evidence against him. Ironically, James Lockyer also representedPaul Bernardo between 1996 and 1997 [ [http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080422/baltovich_timeline_080422/20080422/ CTV.ca | Baltovich's legal saga: a timeline ] ] , the person Lockyer now says "probably" is responsible for the death of Baltovich's girlfriend. [ [http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5jM5jOxwaFmdj7qwVHFdZO5K4Cgkw] Dead link|date=May 2008]Mr. Lockyer taught law at
McGill University and at theUniversity of Windsor until 1977, when he went into private practice as acriminal law yer.Lockyer has twice been a candidate for the
New Democratic Party . He ran federally in theToronto riding of St. Paul's, first in the 1979 federal election and then in the 1980 federal election. He placed third on both attempts.References
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