FILE 078 / RESEARCH DOSSIER / JUSTICE FAILURE / WRONGFUL CONVICTION

LILANDSAKEN

Tunnel vision, forensic weakness and the long road to acquittal

EVIDENCE STATUSMISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE DOCUMENTED

The official Liland inquiry found one-track investigation, problematic prosecutorial attitudes and major forensic shortcomings.

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RESEARCH DOSSIER / SOURCE REVIEWThis is a source-based research summary, not an official finding.Claims remain labelled DOCUMENTED, OPEN QUESTION, CONTEXT or NOT ESTABLISHED. A thematic edge is not evidence of a common operation.

01 / DOCUMENTED CORE

What the available record supports.

DOCUMENTED / SOURCE-BASED
Per Kristian Liland was convicted in the 1970 case and acquitted after reopening in 1994.
DOCUMENTED / SOURCE-BASED
The official NOU 1996:15 inquiry identified failures in three main areas.
DOCUMENTED / SOURCE-BASED
The investigation was too one-track regarding the suspect pool and too narrow regarding the time window.
DOCUMENTED / SOURCE-BASED
The inquiry criticised a subjective/condemning prosecutorial attitude and found forensic investigations and statements partly inadequate.

02 / OPEN QUESTIONS & TESTS

Where the record stops.

OPEN QUESTION
How one-track investigation developed and which alternative hypotheses were prematurely excluded.
OPEN QUESTION
How uncertainty in time-of-death analysis was communicated to legal decision-makers.
OPEN QUESTION
Which later criminal-procedure reforms can be traced partly to lessons from Liland and similar cases.

03 / VISUAL RECORD

Visual explainers

These original diagrams help explain the record. They are illustrations, not documentary photographs or source documents.

FILE 078 evidence structure diagram — **ORIGINAL CASE DIAGRAM**Original case explainer. It maps sourced relationships and uncertainty; it is not a documentary photograph.Documented North editorial desk · DOCUMENTED NORTH ORIGINAL source ↗

FILE 078 chronology timeline — **ORIGINAL TIMELINE**Original chronology built from the dossier source register. Sequence is not causation.Documented North editorial desk · DOCUMENTED NORTH ORIGINAL source ↗

FILE 078 location and relationship schematic map — **ORIGINAL LOCATION SCHEMATIC**Original schematic map. Positions and routes are illustrative, not surveyed measurements.Documented North editorial desk · DOCUMENTED NORTH ORIGINAL source ↗

FILE 078 source chain board — **ORIGINAL SOURCE-CHAIN BOARD**Original source-chain board showing record, custody, interpretation and limits.Documented North editorial desk · DOCUMENTED NORTH ORIGINAL source ↗

FILE 078 system context board — **ORIGINAL CONTEXT BOARD**Original context board. Context is not direct evidence of a proposed connection.Documented North editorial desk · DOCUMENTED NORTH ORIGINAL source ↗

04 / RED THREAD

Connections, with limits attached.

SYSTEMIC_JUSTICE_FAILURE_COMPARISON
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Direct thematic/institutional comparison

Connections are displayed as context or comparison unless a source directly documents the relationship. No candidate edge is presented as causation.

05 / SOURCE REGISTER

Sources

PRIMARYNOU 1996:15 LILANDSAKEN
Full official inquiry.
PRIMARYNOU 1996:15 — main findings
Official summary of one-track investigation, prosecutorial attitude and forensic shortcomings.
PRIMARYNOU 1996:15 — forensic issues
Detailed official treatment of forensic problems.

06 / EDITORIAL POSITION

What remains unresolved.