Donald Marshall Jr., a Mi'kmaq man from Nova Scotia, was wrongfully convicted in 1971 at the age of 17 for the murder of his friend Sandy Seale. He spent 11 years in prison before new evidence proved his innocence, leading to his acquittal in 1983. His case became one of Canada’s most notorious miscarriages of justice, exposing systemic racism and flaws in the legal system. A royal commission later concluded that Marshall was “convicted and sent to prison, in part at least, because he was a Native.” alse labelling it as a "serious and fundamental error" by the Royal Commission report.