The country’s top court is set to rule on a Calgary case involving a university student who, while naked and high on mushrooms, attacked a professor with a broom handle after breaking into her home.
Posted: Jul 29, 2021 2:43 PM MT | Last Updated: July 29
Matthew Brown, left, was naked and high on magic mushrooms when he broke into the Calgary home of Janet Hamnett, right, and beat her badly with a broom handle. He was acquitted in 2020, but on Thursday, the Alberta Court of Appeal overturned the acquittal and substituted a conviction.(Meghan Grant/CBC, Mount Royal University)