Wilson-Raybould did not confirm or deny a lengthy delay in dealing with Glen Assoun’s case, but suggested it was just one of many potential wrongful conviction cases that landed on her desk
Glen Assoun, right, arrives at Nova Scotia Supreme Court with his lawyer Sean MacDonald in Halifax on March 1, 2019.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.
But he said in an interview: “I can tell you this much, that Glen Assoun is 100 per cent factually innocent and he suffered every single day while he waited for his exoneration. I can say that Minister Lametti worked with dispatch to make sure that justice was done.” Wilson-Raybould herself did not confirm or deny a lengthy delay in dealing with Assoun’s case, but suggested it was just one of many potential wrongful conviction cases that landed on her desk.
Among the examples of what she considered inappropriate pressure, Wilson-Raybould told the House of Commons justice committee last month that she was urged to solicit a second opinion – from someone like a retired Supreme Court justice – on whether SNC-Lavalin should be invited to negotiate a remediation agreement, a kind of plea bargain. She rejected the idea as interference with prosecutorial discretion.
“It’s extraordinarily rare for a minister to make a positive, factual finding of misconduct in his or her order,” said MacDonald. “And I think that speaks to the level of egregiousness that this wrongful conviction has sort of achieved.” “I wouldn’t think that there would be a great deal of applications being processed or reviewed by the criminal conviction review group,” he said.
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