On Monday, Ontario's Court of Appeal acquitted Doyle, 50, of manslaughter charges in the 1996 death of 17-month-old Tyler Cunningham, which he served three and a half years in a maximum-security prison for.
In its reasoning, the court said Doyle's conviction was "another in the long list of wrongful convictions brought about in part by the unreliable expert evidence of [the] disgraced pathologist." Doyle, 23 at the time, did not testify at his trial. A jury convicted him in 1997 and he was sentenced to four years in jail, four months of which he had already served while awaiting trial. He served the entirety of his sentence.
He also recounts a three-hour interview with police in which he alleges he was told he had “shaken Tyler to death” and that he eventually “gave in” to those accusations, the document reads.