James Lockyer is a founding director of the Association in Defense of the Wrongly Convicted (AIDWYC), a Canada wide organization which advocates for the wrongly convicted. Mr. Lockyer is a criminal lawyer whose practice is primarily devoted to researching wrongful convictions in Canada, including three homicide cases in which post-conviction DNA testing resulted in exonerations. One of these cases, that of Guy Paul Morin, lead to a Public Inquiry in Ontario which resulted in a 1300 page report called the "Kaufman Report." The Report made numerous recommendations for avoiding wrongful conviction in the future and exposing those of the past. Mr. Lockyer also arranged the DNA testing which exonerated David Milgaard after he had spent 23 years in jail for a murder he did not commit.

Mr. Lockyer was one of the counsel in the recent decision of the Supreme Court of Canada (a case involving the State of Washington) which forbade the future extradition of persons in Canada to any jurisdiction in which the death penalty was to be sought against the fugitive.

He is presently working on Steven Truscott's case. Mr. Truscott was 14 years old when he was convicted in 1959 of a murder that he did not commit.

Mr. Lockyer resides in Toronto, Canada.

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