The defence lawyer in the murder trial of an escaped inmate in Metchosin says the jury must acquit his client because the evidence doesn't align with the prosecution's theory of events.
Ryan Drury told a jury in closing arguments that DNA evidence and lack of blood splatter on the clothes of James Lee Busch, means either that his client wasn't in the house, he didn't take part in the murder or his only involvement was in cleaning up the crime scene.
Armitage began the trial with Busch, but the prosecutor says the Crown is proceeding against the two accused on separate indictments. However, Drury says there was nothing about the wounds that shows they had to be inflicted by two people, and he suggested to the jury that Armitage worked alone.
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