OTTAWA — Glen Assoun’s lawyer says the wrongfully convicted Halifax man suffered “every single day” as he waited to be exonerated for a murder he didn’t commit — a wait that was prolonged for months as his case sat on former justice minister Jody Wilson-Raybould’s desk. “It would be entirely inappropriate for me to comment on specific cases or applications made under the criminal conviction review process. MacDonald said it’s not unusual for a justice minister to seek outside advice on cases in which a miscarriage of justice is alleged. Still, he said the criminal conviction review group at Justice is a “highly professional, specialized group” that spent five years meticulously investigating the Assoun case. MacDonald questioned Wilson-Raybould’s suggestion that she had many potential wrongful conviction cases to deal with.

Source: National Post March 28, 2019 08:03 UTC