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Report of the Kaufman Commission on Proceedings Involving Guy Paul Morin:
The Honourable Fred Kaufman CM QC 31 March 1998
[This version of the report has been edited by Dr Robert N Moles
Underlining where it occurs is for editorial emphasis]
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Citation: Report of the Kaufman Commission on Proceedings Involving Guy Paul Morin: The Honourable Fred Kaufman, C.M., Q.C. 31 March 1998
Importantly the Kaufman Commission in Canada recommended that no police officer or Crown counsel should take action affecting an accused or
a potential accused based upon representations made by a forensic scientist which are not recorded in writing.
Indeed, the Kaufman Commission took sworn evidence from Dr Tilstone who had given evidence about the policies in place at the Forensic Science Centre Adelaide –
He said: There was a fairly lengthy policy on reporting, and that policy said that reports had to contain 5 parts. They had to have a
"chain of custody" which defined the items which were examined and where they had come from. They had to define the tests which were conducted. They had to
specify the results of that testing. They had to specify the conclusions which could be drawn from the testing, and they had to
specify the limitations which could be placed on those conclusions. Dr Tilstone testified that the NATA program in Australia contains provisions which
speak to the issue of how reports should be written.
[Report of the Kaufman Commission on Proceedings Involving Guy Paul Morin: The Honourable Fred Kaufman, C.M., Q.C. 31 March 1998]
Office of Chief Coroner: Backgrounder
Executive Summary part one
Executive Summary part two
The Background Facts
Overview of the Commission and its Role
Introduction to Hair and Fibre issues
Misleading Hair and Fibre Evidence
Contamination of Hair and Fibre Evidence
Failure to Disclose Exculpatory Findings
Blood, pathology, bones and standards
Jailhouse Confessions of Mr May and Mr X
Jailhouse Confessions - possibility of set up
Jailhouse Confessions - use of polygraph tests
Jailhouse Confessions - The role of the prosecutors part one
Jailhouse Confessions - The role of the prosecutors part two
Jailhouse Confessions - The Los Angeles experience
Jailhouse Confessions - Submissions and Case Law
Jailhouse Confessions - Recommendations part one
Jailhouse Confessions - Recommendations part two
Police investigations - York Police
Police investigations - Durham Police part one
Police investigations - Cigarette Butts
Police investigations - Problems with police witnesses
Police investigations - Development of Morin as a suspect
Police investigations - Jessop interviews on timings
Police investigations - psychological profiling and initial interviews
Police investigations - police witnesses and dog scent discrimination
Evidence of demeanour and consciousness of guilt
Screams and lack of interest - consciousness of guilt
The alibi - consciousness of guilt
Conduct of defence and crown lawyers
Crown's duty of disclosure
Systemic causes of wrongful convictions
The Campbell Report - Educational responses
Recommendations: Hair and Fibre Comparison Evidence
Recommendations: Admissibility of Preliminary Tests
Recommendations: Written Reports and Language Used
Recommendations: Scientific Procedures
Recommendations: Audit of Scientific Procedures
Recommendations: Reform of Scientific Procedures
Recommendations: Retention of samples and DNA Procedures
Recommendations: Tunnel vision and evidential issues
Recommendations - Role of judge and appeal issues
Recommendations - Crown Appeals - Police procedures
Recommendations - Disclosure and need for criminal review body and Conclusion
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