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Mr. Donald Marshall, a young man of 16 was sentenced to life in prison for a crime that he did not commit. Late one night, in May 1971 Marshall and his friend Sandy Seale was out looking for trouble in a park in Sydney, Nova Scotia. This night turned into a nightmare for Young Donald Marshall when he and his friend confronted Roy Ebsary, a short scuffle occurred and Seale fell mortally wounded by a knife blow. The police in Sydney immediately focused on Marshall, who was “know to them” from previous incidents. They assumed that Marshall had killed Ebsary in a rage or for some reason, From the beginning , the system seemed determined to prove that Marshall was guilty, and he was easily convicted. The court was racism and did not favour aboriginals at all. They did not give him a fair court, but judged him on his background and previous records instead of the evide