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