Gerald Klassen began working with the UBC Innocence Project in 2009.
Prosecutors in the Kamloops Crown counsel office are expected to decide in the coming months whether to retry a man who served 26 years in prison for a murder he likely did not commit — at least according to Canada’s attorney general.
In 2018, lawyers and UBC law students working the case filed an application under a section of the Criminal Code of Canada that allows the federal Minister of Justice to review and overturn criminal convictions in extraordinary cases that are deemed “likely” to represent a miscarriage of justice. The pathologist who testified at Klassen's trial in 1995 has also recently "softened his view as to causation," B.C. Supreme Court Justice Catherine Wedge said in her bail decision.
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