Disclosure failure results in wrongful conviction and Crown independent of police

This week on Legally Speaking with Michael Mulligan: In 2013, a 28-year-old babysitter, and mother of four, was charged with murder when a 19-month-old drowned in a bathtub. The case against her was based on the opinion of a pathologist who alleged that “there is no benign explanation” for injuries sustained by the child and that the child had “extensive bruising” that is “typical of abused children.” The babysitter, who had “Borderline Intellectual Functioning,” agreed to plead guilty t...