In 1979, filmmaker Jean-Claude Labrecque made a feature film on the matter entitled L'Affaire Coffin.
The director of client services for the association called Coffin's case "a blot on the criminal justice system.
[citation needed] Rioux accused Maurice Duplessis, premier of Quebec at the time, of making Coffin into a scapegoat for the killings of foreign tourists.
Speaking in 2006, prominent Canadian criminal lawyer Edward Greenspan blamed Coffin's trial lawyer, Raymond Maher who suffered from alcoholism and was drunk for the majority of the trial, for keeping Coffin out of the witness box: "It was incompetence with a capital I," Greenspan said of Maher.
The child's mother wanted to marry Coffin before the execution, but Duplessis denied permission and said it would not be "decent.
published by Wilson & Lafleur in Montreal, Clément Fortin, a retired attorney and law professor, proceeded to re-establish the facts.
Given the evidence presented to the Percé jurors in 1954, Fortin concluded that they were justified to render a verdict of guilty as charged.