A Matrix of Evidence

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A MATRIX OF EVIDENCE by Bruce M. Olsen
The Edmonton Police said that a law professor from Kingston travelled to Edmonton in June 1971, to murder a former business partner in cold-blood. The motive, they said, was life insurance. And a tough Crown Prosecutor convinced an Edmonton jury that what the police said was true.
A Matrix Of Evidence is a unique reading experience. It is a murder mystery, a perceptive analysis of the Canadian criminal justice system, and a disturbing social commentary, all in one absorbing book.
The case of HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN against KEITH LATTA has been described as everything from "eminently fair" to a "gross perversion of justice." A Matrix of Evidence puts the reader in the position of a concerned jury that found a man guilty of murder and saw him sentenced to life in prison without even knowing the whole story. The author states, "After months of an exhausting and exhaustive review of everything now available, I have found nothing to support the... Tovább

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A MATRIX OF EVIDENCE by Bruce M. Olsen
The Edmonton Police said that a law professor from Kingston travelled to Edmonton in June 1971, to murder a former business partner in cold-blood. The motive, they said, was life insurance. And a tough Crown Prosecutor convinced an Edmonton jury that what the police said was true.
A Matrix Of Evidence is a unique reading experience. It is a murder mystery, a perceptive analysis of the Canadian criminal justice system, and a disturbing social commentary, all in one absorbing book.
The case of HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN against KEITH LATTA has been described as everything from "eminently fair" to a "gross perversion of justice." A Matrix of Evidence puts the reader in the position of a concerned jury that found a man guilty of murder and saw him sentenced to life in prison without even knowing the whole story. The author states, "After months of an exhausting and exhaustive review of everything now available, I have found nothing to support the charge that Keith Latta is the murderer."
This is the first Canadian book to examine the tactical, strategic, and human ingredients of our adversary system of criminal justice. The reader is taken through all the fascinating steps of arrest, testimony at trial, summations and charge to the jury, verdict, and appeal. The parts played by the victim, suspect, police, lawyers, jury, and authorities in this contentious murder case are analyzed in a way that provides the reader with an unusual insight into how our criminal justice system really works. Vissza