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Ontario Court of Appeal decision (300 pages)
Ontario Court of Appeal decision (Cliff's notes)
As many had predicted, the Ontario Court of Appeal acquitted Steven Truscott today of the murder of Lynne Harper. Has justice finally been served? Maybe not. Truscott was seeking a declaration of innocence, something far stronger than an acquittal. And after all these years, can the family of Lynne Harper find peace?
From the Globe and Mail story:
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Steven Truscott has been acquitted of murdering a 12-year-old friend 48 years ago, ending a legal who-done-it that captured public interest like no other in modern Canadian history. In a 300 page decision released Tuesday today by a five-judge panel of the Ontario Court of Appeal concluded that Mr. Truscott's conviction and death sentence amounts to an unsustainable “miscarriage of justice.”
“I never in my wildest dreams expected that in my lifetime this would come true,” said Mr. Truscott at a press conference held after the acquittal was announced.
“The appellant in this case served 10 years in the penitentiary and has lived his entire adult life in the shadow of a conviction that we have concluded must be quashed as a miscarriage of justice,” it said.
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