Guy Paul Morin was wrongly convicted of the October 1984
Morin was convicted at his second trial and was sentenced to life imprisonment.
Morin was acquitted of murder at his first trial
The Crown exercised its right to appeal the verdict on the grounds that the trial judge made a fundamental error prejudicing the Crown's right to a fair trial.
Guy Paul Morin in the Court of Appeal ordered a new trial
The retrial was delayed by Morin's own appeals based on the Crown's non-disclosure
Improvements in DNA testing led to a test which excluded Morin as the murderer.
Morin's case also uncovered evidence of police and prosecutorial misconduct, and of misrepresentation of forensic evidence by the Ontario Centre of Forensic Sciences.