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Donald Marshall at age 16 was charged of murdering his friend Sandy Seale.
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He was only given a one day preliminary enquiry and it was already decided there was enough evidence to proceed with the charges, even though as we now know he was innocent
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The trial only lasted three days and they deemed him guilty. He was then only 17 and was sentenced to life.
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11 years later he was released from prison at age 28, beacuse another witness came froward saying he didn't commit murder. It took almost another year for him to be acquitted.
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He was Acquitted in 1983 by the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal.
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Donald Marshall was given $225,000 because he was imprisoned for something he didn't do.
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Six years after receiving his first settlement Donals Marshall received another $1.6 million in damages for being wrongfully imprisoned.
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Donald Marshall wsa arrested and convicted for catching and selling eels without a licence which led him to fight for his tribes original Mi'kmaq treaty .
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The Supreme Court upholds the original treaty; that was signed in 1760; with the Mi'kmaq Nova Scotia Indians to catch and sell fish.
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Donald Marshall died when the lung transplant he recieved in 2003 developed complications in 2009.
