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Evidence gathered by his family
strongly suggests Clayton Miller was murdered by Cape Breton
police while in their custody nine years ago. Read the
full story and examine the evidence. Gary
Dimmock's feature
The Clayton
Miller Motorcade
injusticebusters
thank Iris Sparrow
for this first hand report and pictures!
Burgundy ribbons made by Rayleen
Eksal for the car areials were given out at the Colliery Lands
Park, along with tiny burgundy bows representing "justice"
made by Betty Miller, Tiny Pinkerton, Rayleen Eksal and Essie
Murphy. Also given to all, were pin's with Clayton's picture
on them and the words "Friend's of Clayton." The weather
was beautiful.
We all kept tooting our horns
when we drove throughout the main streets of New Waterford and
Dominion and Glace Bay and onward to The Municipal Building..
We received a lot of support from the public through horn tooting
in return, thumbs up signs, waves, nods, and a few cars even
pulled over to the side of the road.
I was told by Maureen in a
phone conversation that same evening, that Glace Bay town Counsellor
Gerard Burke, who was on his way into the building for a meeting,
was very glad to meet the Millers and told them he was very familiar
with their case. He met with them on the morning of Thursday
May 6th, here in Glace Bay. He also asked them to hand him a
resolution asking the municipality to write to the Federal Government
(Prime Minister, The Justice minister & the Solicitor general),
to have a Royal Commission Into the death and the circumstances
surrounding the death of their son Clayton. He also suggested
they attend the next monthly council meeting. He said that he
would bring up the topic of the Royal Commission at the meeting.
The meetings are aired Live on a local community channel 10.
We will also attend and I am sure others will as well, to show
support for this family's long battle for justice.
The May 5, 1999, motorcade
went over well. The idea to bring attention to the Miller case
with a motorcade came from Maria MacEachern, a resident of Lingan
who also wrote the article in the news (letter to the editors
"Royal Commission Would Get Town Back In Order) Feb.19th
1999.
I made up a collage of pictures
and a few words from news headlines . (Nova Scotia Father Pursues
Justice) Mauren and Gervase placed it on their car door. On the
other door was a cloth banner reading "Come die On Our Island",
bordered by the Cape Breton Tartan. On the door of Bruno Marcocchio
and friend Mary Ruth MacLellan, was a cloth banner with felt
letters reading "Justice for Clayton, Royal Commission Now!!"
These banners were made by, Mary Ruth MacLellan and May MacKinnon.
 
The ATV news team who were
told in advance about this, didn't show up but did put on the
same coverage as was shown earlier on Global TV on their 11:pm
news. CBC Radio and TV were at the Colliery Lands park early,
waiting for the motorcade arrival. They did various interviews
on film and radio and Mark Sparrow was interviewed (audio) by
Wendy Martin. TV reporter on the scene was Frank King . The Global
news team spotted the Motorcade as it headed towards its destination
at the Municipal Building in Sydney and they turned around and
came to the area to do some footage which was aired at 6:pm this
evening. CBC News also covered the Motorcade on the news at 6.
We had to leave that building on Grand Lake Road and go farther
on down through the City of Sydney, to see the Deputy Mayor Brian
Boudreau, at his office at the the Civic Centre, on the Esplanade.
The news about the Motorcade has been broadcast here every hour,
on our local radio, stations today (Thursday).
Mayor David Muise was out of
town. The deputy Mayor of the Cape Breton Regional municipality,
Brian Boudreau, had agreed to meet with the Miller family in
advance should Mayor Muise not be available . About twenty of
us who showed up at the officeso the secretary showed us to the
large Conference room .
The
Miller's explained their reason for being there and asked the
Deputy Mayor to pass the information on to Mayor David Muise
along with their petition of over 1400 signatures calling for
a Royal Commission to investigate the circumstances surrounding
Clayton's death. I accompanied Maureen with the video camera
when she was meeting with him and taped the entire discussion.
The Millers told the deputy that they plan on filing civil suits
against some of those responsibile for atrocity and poorly covered
up murder of their 17 year old son. More comments were made to
the Deputy Mayer by other family members and friends.
Burgundy ribbons made by Rayleen
Eksal for the car areials were given out at the Colliery Lands
Park, along with tiny burgundy bows representing "justice"
made by Betty Miller, Tiny Pinkerton, Rayleen Eksal and Essie
Murphy. Also given to all, were pin's with Clayton's picture
on them and the words "Friend's of Clayton." The weather
was beautiful.
We all kept tooting our horns
when we drove throughout the main streets of New Waterford and
Dominion and Glace Bay and onward to The Municipal Building..
We received a lot of support from the public through horn tooting
in return, thumbs up signs, waves, nods, and a few cars even
pulled over to the side of the road.
I was told by Maureen in a
phone conversation that same evening, that Glace Bay town Counsellor
Gerard Burke, who was on his way into the building for a meeting,
was very glad to meet the Millers and told them he was very familiar
with their case. He met with them on the morning of Thursday
May 6th, here in Glace Bay. He also asked them to hand him a
resolution asking the municipality to write to the Federal Government
(Prime Minister, The Justice minister & the Solicitor general),
to have a Royal Commission Into the death and the circumstances
surrounding the death of their son Clayton. He also suggested
they attend the next monthly council meeting. He said that he
would bring up the topic of the Royal Commission at the meeting.
The meetings are aired Live on a local community channel 10.
We will also attend and I am sure others will as well, to show
support for this family's long battle for justice.
The producer of CBC radio had
reporter, Ein McNeil, got in touch with Maureen at 10 am. Thursday
morning. He stated that they received so many phone calls about
the Motorcade that they were interested in doing their own interview
to find out more about why the family is fighting for justice,
why are they seeking a Royal commission etc. He stated that something
has to be done about this situation.
During
the motor-cade, one of the participants, Bruno Marcocchio reported
that his daughter called him on his cell phone to tell him that
a girl at her high school had a teen magazine called What
and in the Feb. 99 issue there was a small news clipping about
Clayton Miller! He went to the school and picked it up for all
of us to see.
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Index
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This is not
regularly updated so if you are looking for a particular story
and you have a name or keyword, please use the site search engine(at
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Index to Saskatoon Police stories
This is a pretty good scrapbook
for the 1998-2002 period.
Inquiry into the malicious prosecution of David
Milgaard untanling 36 years of Saskatchewan police and Crown
misconduct: : Opening day 1 | 2
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- Stephen Williams:
Canadian writer subject to Stasi-like treatment by Canadian police
- Terry
Arnold: : Snitch a
suicide?
- RCMP
scenario stings: Brian
Hutchinson starts digging
- Gary
wells: Faulty eye-witness
testimony
- Tulia,
Texas
- Gilmer,
Texas
- Willie
Upshaw
- Wrongfully
convicted in Canada
- Foster
Parent false accusations
- Martensville
- Don
Smith obscenity trial: an obscene conviction
- James
Lockyer
- Hurricane
Carter
- Johnny Cochran speaks up for
Bill Sampson
- Vopnis
- Abdulai
Mohamed
- Nfld Defamation story:
- Wanda
Young
- Racism
in the Federal Civil Service
The Terrible Story behind the Atif Rafay and
Sebastian Burns convictions
Trial
set for June 15
We
know part of this disclosure is a forged statement and perjured
affidavit from a Winnipeg cop
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The
Crown is still fighting Fred Poirier -- and they are losing.
Secret Commissions Case from Northern B.C.
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- 2005: In
the United States the proven wrongful convictions just keep coming
at us!
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- Brandon Morin:
- Convicted in Oregon
- of rapes which did not happen
- This website has good information
about Measure 11 -- Oregon's Mandatory Sentencing requirements
which have been in place since 1994. In this case we see how
the combination of a flawed grand jury system and prosecutors
who seek not justice but convictions is a recipe for wrongful
convictions.
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Canadians who
have been wrongfully convicted because of improper investigations
combined with zealous Crown
A round-up of wrongful convictions in Canada
- Robert
Baltovich
- Michael
Burns
- Sebastian Burns
- Rodney
Cain
- Wilbert
Coffin
(hanged, 1953)
- Jason Dix
- Jim
Driskell
- Jody
Druken
- Randy
Druken
- Hugues
Duguay
- Michel
Dumont
- Peter
Frumusa
- Walter
Gillespie and Robert Mailman
- Clayton
Johnson
- Yvonne
Johnson
- Herman
Kaglik
- Darren
Koehn
- Kulaveeringsam
"Kulam" Karthiresu
- Stephen
Leadbeater
- Donald
Marshall
- Chris
McCullough
- Michael
McTaggart
- Felix
Michaud
- David
Milgaard
- Guy Paul
Morin
- Shannon
Murrin
- Jamie
Nelson
- Greg
Parsons
- Benoit
Proulx
- Atif Rafay
- Louise
Reynolds
- Thomas
Sophonow
- Gary
Staples
- Billy
Taillefer
- Steven
Truscott
- Joe
Warren
- Leon
Walchuk
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- AIDWYC
- Innocence Project (Canada)
- Innocence Project (U.S.)
- Northwest Law Center on Wrongful Convictions
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- Kirstin
Lobato
- Jeffrey
Scott Hornoff
- Willie
Upshaw
- Hurricane
Carter
- Guildford
4
- Birmingham
6
- Amirault
- Houston
- U.S. wrongful convictions:
Exonerateed
- Kirk
Bloodsworth
- Laurence
Adams
- Ludrate
Burton
- Stephen
Cowans
- Wilton
Dedge
- Albert
Johnson
- Kenneth
Marsh
- Dwayne
McKinney
- James Bernard Parker
- Peter
Reilly
- Peter
Rose
- Sylvester
Smith
- Clifford
St. Joseph
- John
Stoll
- Marty
Tankleff
- Wilton
Dedge
- Ray
Krone
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- Still working on it:
- Dennis Deschaine
- Dennis
Perry
- Tim
Sandfort
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Blogging
Blogging has been in the news.
It is the new, trendy thing with 40,000 new blogs being created
each day. I established a blog for this website last September
and it is now "taking off." These are a few of the
pages with ongoing discussions.
- Tasering Mary Lutz
- Saskatchewan Centenary
- Quint Blog discussion
- Rotten apples in the Saskatoon Police
- Blogging for choice
- Michael Cardamone witch hunt
- Implement recommendations of public
inquiries
- Stealing from the poor
- Vancouver's killer cops
- Tisdale rapists appeal
- Winnipeg police misdeeds
- Milgaard Inquiry
- Chief Sabo: can he be trusted?
- The Old Boys' Club Must Go!
- Vancouver activists
- John Hudak: Falsely accused mountie
- City of intolerance
- Constable Larry Lockwood: Exciteable!
- Eric Cline
This is a great way for like-minded
people to communicate and share our views. It is easier than
making a website and marginally more difficult than a forum.
People who want to contribute
simply have to punch the "comment" link and they will
be taken to a page with a box which allows them to write their
comment, preview and post it. It takes a while for the comment
to show up and some people get impatient and repost. That's fine,
I trash the duplicate posts and no harm done.
Please, please give it a try.
The internet is distinguished from other media in that it is
really and truly interactive. Blogging makes it possible to express
your viewpoint even if you don't have a computer. You can go
to the library or a friend's place or an internet cafe. Once
you've mastered the basics (and believe me, if I can do it, you
can do it) you will be participating in one of the most democratic
-- and potentially powerful -- media the world as we know it
has ever seen.
Come on. Don't be shy. Join
the Weblog World! -- Sheila Steele, March 20, 2005
Toronto Police paid out $30M in secretly resolved
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