Association in Defence of the Wrongly Convicted

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Association in Defence of the Wrongly Convicted or AIDWYC, is a Toronto based non-profit organization founded in 1993 that is dedicated to the prevention of wrongful convictions and the reversal of cases that have already occurred. It is the direct successor to the Justice for Guy Paul Morin Committee, a grass-roots, community-based organization that supported Guy Paul Morin following his wrongful conviction. For many years the AIDWYC was headed by Rubin "Hurricane" Carter who had himself been convicted in the United States.