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For Sean MacDonald, the push to restart a criminal investigation into police destruction of evidence in the Glen Assoun wrongful conviction case matters both for personal reasons and for the precedent it could set.
The Canadian legal system is confusing and expensive, especially if you’re falsely accused of murder
Posted: Apr 30, 2021 7:19 AM AT | Last Updated: April 30 Glen Assoun at Nova Scotia Supreme Court in Halifax on March 1, 2019. (Robert Short/CBC) A former RCMP constable who accused his bosses of destroying physical evidence in a high-profile wrongful conviction case had a copy of the document in question when interviewed about his allegations, wrote a member of the force in a review obtained by CBC News through freedom of information laws. The evidence was in fact a copy of a vehicle registration Const. David Moore believed connected someone other than Glen Assoun to the 1995 murder o...