Arturo Sanchez was an 81-year-old retired Canadian paediatrician with minor cognitive impairment when six former adult female patients emerged in 2015 to accuse him of sexually abusing them decades ago.
[1][2] Bo Zou is a Toronto fashion photographer who was convicted of sexual assaulting a model that came to his condo for a photo shoot in July 2012.
The next day the woman sent an anonymous email to the Toronto Police Service claiming Zou sexually assaulted her and provided them with his name and address.
The appeal panel concluded the trial judge misapplied the law and, "That word [corroboration], as commonly understood, refers to evidence from a source other than the witness."
[6] Richard Mallory and Robert Stewart were convicted in February 2000 of the January 16, 1990 murder of a man and his pregnant wife in Cumberland, Ontario.
Nepoose was preparing a civil suit against the Canadian Department of Corrections and the RCMP when he was reported missing, and his skeletal remains were found in January 1998.
[9] Connie Oakes was convicted in November 2013 of second-degree murder in the stabbing death of Casey Armstrong in Medicine Hat, Alberta in May 2011.
Prior to his retrial, DNA testing excluded him as the killer and the Newfoundland Supreme Court entered a verdict of acquittal in November 1998.
Based on new evidence casting doubt on the reliability of his conviction, the Ontario Court of Appeals acquitted Truscott on August 28, 2007.
His conviction was quashed in January 2000 by the Ontario Court of Appeals after he was excluded by DNA tests of crime scene evidence.
[20] Christopher Michael Burr was convicted on December 4, 2014, of second-degree murder in the shooting death of Duane Laybourne in Calgary, Alberta on February 3, 2013.
His conviction was overturned after a key witness, a jailhouse informant, recanted his story claiming that police had bullied him into making a false statement.
John Salmon was convicted for the manslaughter death of his wife, Maxine, on March 5, 1971, and sentenced to ten years' imprisonment.
On Monday June 22, 2015, the Ontario Court of Appeal admitted fresh evidence which absolved John, quashed his manslaughter conviction, and entered an acquittal.
On December 3, 1992, Dinesh pled guilty to criminal negligence causing his son's death and he was sentenced to 90 days imprisonment and two years probation.
On February 18, 2002, the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal quashed Johnson's conviction and ordered a new trial that would include the new evidence.
The now disgraced forensic pathologist, Charles Smith, maintained that Tamara had died due to strangulation or blunt force trauma.
[36] Robert Baltovich was convicted in March 1992 of the murder of his girlfriend, Elizabeth Bain, and he was sentenced to life in prison with no eligibility for parole for the next 17 years.
[38] James Driskell was convicted for the first-degree murder of Perry Harder on June 14, 1991, and sentenced to life in prison with no parole eligibility for 25 years.
[40] Anthony Hanemaayer was charged for breaking and entering, and alleged assault with a weapon against a 15-year-old girl at her home in Scarborough on September 29, 1987.
In 1997 he was acquitted by the Supreme Court of Canada, which ruled that evidence presented at his trial was insufficient to convict him of aggravated robbery.
The two had confronted Roy Ebsary, an older man they encountered in Wentworth Park in Sydney, Nova Scotia, during the late evening with the intent to "roll a drunk".
Ebsary admitted that he had stabbed Seale but then lied about his role to the police who immediately focused on Marshall, who was 'known to them' from previous incidents.
More than a dozen persons, including five police officers from two different forces, ultimately faced over 100 charges connected with running a Satanic cult called The Brotherhood of The Ram, which allegedly practised ritualized sexual abuse of numerous children at a "Devil Church".
The son of the day care owner was tried and found guilty, but a new investigation concluded that the original trial was motivated by 'emotional hysteria.'
Tipped off by Cadrain, who admitted he was mostly interested in the $2,000 reward for information, British Columbia police arrested Milgaard in May 1969 and sent him back to Saskatchewan where he was charged with Miller's murder.
But in July 1997, a DNA laboratory in the United Kingdom released a report confirming that semen samples on the victim's clothing did not originate with Milgaard—for all intents and purposes clearing Milgaard of the crime.
Roméo Phillion was convicted of the 1967 murder of Ottawa firefighter Léopold Roy, after making a confession to police which he recanted two hours later.
Marie, Ontario was found guilty of the first-degree murder of his niece, Valin Johnson, after a two-and-a-half-week trial in September 1994.
On July 16, 2007, a report by three expert pathologists (written unbeknownst to the lawyers working on his behalf) determined there was no evidence that the girl was sexually assaulted, and the Ontario Attorney General Michael Bryant said that William Mullins-Johnson's conviction “cannot stand” and that he should be acquitted by the appeals court.