The Case Of Steven Murray Truscott

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INTRODUCTION: Introduce the case and give a summary

In a small southwestern Ontario town of Clinton, Canada, associating with Royal Canadian Air Force base where everyone lived close around the section - including a young, 14-year-old boy named Steven Murray Truscott, a popular, athletic teenager who lived with his parents on the RCAF base. His father, Daniel Truscott, was an RCAF warrant officer and his mother, Doris Truscott, who did not have a job, she only devoted her time looking after their family of 6. In June 1959 after a fellow classmate, Lynne Harper was found dead and raped, Steven Truscott was found to be the only suspect by evidence so he became convicted of first-degree

Nickerson, who was conducting a meeting of Junior Girl Guides called Clinton Brownies. Later that night after the meeting was finished, Lynne had met up with Steven Truscott outside of the school grounds and asked him for a ride on his bicycle up to the road. Steven carried her on the handlebars of his bicycle in the main County road to Highway 8, arriving at the intersection, dropping her off, then he soon parted ways to the bridge before taking the last look at Harper. Steven noticed she had put her thumb up to try to hitch a ride when a car showed up, noticing Lynne get inside the car and that was the last he saw of

A temporary reprieve on November 20, 1959, postponed his execution to February 16th the next year to try to settle for an appeal which the Ontario Court of Appeal dismissed on January 21th, 1960. The next day, the Government of John Diefenbaker commuted his death sentence to life imprisonment spending the next ten years behind bars. Being the youngest person to sit on Canada's death row, his case grew to be more controversial in Canadian judicial history, which helped his case seven years later on May 4th, 1967, to get a new trial and in order to do that as a part of the evidence, he had to speak his testimony for the first time concerning the murder of Lynne Harper to the Supreme Court of Canada. While the Truscott case was being examined by the top court, they also found it to be quite unsettling with such little facts, ruling it 8-1 to uphold the verdict, sending him back to prison to serve the remainder of his sentence for three more years. He was released on parole on October 21st, 1969 and was soon relieved by parole five years later on November 12th, 1974. The controversy about Truscott's case was believed to help spur the country to abolish the capital punishment in