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If Justice Fails

It seemed like and open and shut case for the police and the prosecutors. A carload of dubious characters, a blast from a sawn-off shotgun, a body and then a trial that delivered Erin Michael Walsh to a penetentiary to serve a life sentence. For more than 30 years, the convicted killer proclaimed his innocence.

Now, Linden MacIntyre reports, recovered evidence has put vindication within Erin Walsh's grasp, but there is a new urgency to have his name cleared: doctors have given him another kind of life sentence.

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Credits

producer/director: Tamar Weinstein
reporter/writer: Linden MacIntyre
associate producer: Andrew Culbert
editor: Leslie Steven Onody
cinematography: Paul Seeler, John Badcock CSC
audio: Larry Kent, Keith Bonnell
graphic designer: Tim Kindrachuk
art director: Wendy Walker
audio mix: Damian Kearns
colourist: Peter Jorgensen
website producer: Annette Bradford
website coordinator: Eleanor Besley
senior producer: Sally Reardon
executive producer: David Studer