AIDWYC Exonerations: Individual Cases

Gregory Parsons

Gregory Parsons was convicted in 1994 of the first-degree murder of his mother, Catherine Carroll, in St. John's. The conviction rested almost solely on the hearsay evidence of witnesses who testified that Ms. Carroll was afraid of her son.

The Newfoundland and Labrador Court of Appeal ordered a new trial in 1996, and the provincial Crown requested a stay of proceedings in 1998, when DNA proved Mr. Parsons innocent. AIDWYC subsequently intervened and requested that the Court of Appeal set aside the stay and enter an acquittal. With the Crown's consent, Mr. Parsons was acquitted in November, 1998.