If you read it carefully, the victim was in the US and the defendant was in Canada (I suspect a rural part). I think everyone is rightly questioning why the de

If you read it carefully, the victim was in the US and the defendant was in Canada (I suspect a rural part). I think everyone is rightly questioning why the defendant's lawyers failed to tear apart the prosecution's case. This generally requires that the defendant have money, the defendant hire a competent criminal defense attorney, and the attorney hires a team of experts to rigorously challenge all of the evidence. Here is some additional Canadian news coverage: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/how-a-single-underscore-led-to-an-innocent-halifax-man-s-conviction-9.7283149 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/how-a-single-unde...