Court case seeks details of how a Nova Scotia man was wrongfully convicted of murder in 1999

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Glen Assoun was improperly convicted of second-degree murder and spent almost 17 years in jail

A court case is under way today over the release of key evidence explaining what led to the wrongful murder conviction and imprisonment of a Nova Scotia man who spent almost 17 years in jail.

It’s a case where Canada’s minister of justice has already declared there was “reliable and relevant evidence” that wasn’t disclosed during criminal proceedings.On March 1, after a two-decade struggle by Assoun to overturn his conviction, a judge found Assoun innocent in the 1995 knifing death of 28-year-old Brenda Way.

The struggle to release the information goes back to 2014, when the Justice Department determined in a preliminary report there may have been a of miscarriage of justice and Assoun was released on bail.

 

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The money his going to get, should be paid by the ones who wrongfully convicted him, and not be us.

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