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.
Jody Wilson-Raybould appears at the House of Commons Justice Committee on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2019. 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.
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."earlier this month that Wilson-Raybould sat for 18 months on the findings of the Justice Department's criminal conviction review group, which recommended that a new trial be ordered for Assoun.
"As minister, I took potential wrongful conviction matters incredibly seriously. In order to deal with all such applications more thoroughly, effectively, and impartially, I appointed the Honourable Mr. Justice Morris Fish as special adviser on wrongful convictions in early December 2018. His role was designed to advise me -- as minister -- on applications under the criminal conviction review process, of which there were many.
Lametti acted swiftly on the group's advice, saying in his order for a new trial that he had determined "upon investigation that there are new matters of significance, as well as relevant and reliable information, that was not disclosed to Mr. Glen Assoun during his criminal proceedings." As a result of that investigation, Lametti said he is "satisfied that there is a reasonable basis to conclude that a miscarriage of justice likely occurred.
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