Donald Marshall, Jr.

Donald Marshall, Jr. was a Mikmaq man who was wrongly convicted of murder. The case inspired a number of questions about the fairness of the Canadian justice system, especially given that Marshall was an Aboriginal as the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation put it, The name Donald Marshall is almost synonymous with wrongful conviction and the fight for native justice in Canada. The case inspired the Michael Harris book, Justice Denied The Law Versus Donald Marshall and the subsequent film Justice Denied. His father, Donald Marshall, Sr., was grand chief of the Mikmaq Nation at the time.

Marshall was bornSeptember 1953 on Membertou First Nation in Sydney, Nova Scotia. He was the eldest ofchildren of Donald Marshall, Sr., the Grand Chief of the Mikmaq Nation, and his wife Caroline .

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