Man Imprisoned Since 17-Yrs Wins Bail, Murder Conviction Reviewed

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The Toronto-based Association in Defence of the Wrongly Convicted has successfully got a Halifax man imprisoned since 17 years, Glen Eugene Assoun, out on bail on Monday while the Justice Department reviews his second-degree murder conviction. According to the judge, Assoun should be freed immediately as the court awaits results of the final Justice report.

AIDWYC senior counsel, James Lockyer, argued on Monday that Asasoun should be released immediately from custody while calling the case to be a miscarriage of justice. During a telephonic interview, Lockyer alleged that “he’s out after 17 years in prison.” Whereas a statement issued by AIDWYC said that “while several obstacles remain before Mr. Assoun can be exonerated and his name cleared, his release on bail holds great symbolic and practical significance in the battle to restore his innocence.” It was added that “Mr. Assoun would become the 19th person to be exonerated since AIDWYC came into existence in 1993.” A publication ban was ordered on all evidence presented at the bail hearing.

59-year-old Assoun has maintained his innocence since his arrested and sentencing to life in prison in 1999 with no chance of parole for 18 ½ years for killing his 28-year-old ex-girlfriend, Brenda Leanne Way. At the time, police found Way’s partially clothed body in November 1995 behind the apartment building where she had been living. Case files say that her throat was slit and her body was beaten so severely that her liver was split.

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