Case Closed?
But there is something new in this matter. Numerous Canadians believe that Coffin was the victim of a miscarriage of justice. Last October, in a 384 page book titled L’affaire Coffin: une supercherie (translation: The Coffin Affair: A Hoax?) published by Wilson & Lafleur in Montreal, Clément Fortin, a retired attorney and law professor, proceeded to re-establish the facts. Given the evidence presented to the Percé jurors in 1954, Fortin concluded that they were justified to render a verdict of guilty as charged. In 1964, the Royal Commission of Enquiry on the Coffin Affair reached the same conclusion.
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