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Milad Aslami, convicted in the 2016 firebombing of his ex-wife’s home, has won a new trial after the Court of Appeal for Ontario ruled that the Ottawa trial judge made serious errors and failed to consider all of the evidence, and instead focused on the evidence that supported a guilty verdict.
“(Ontario Court Justice Vincent Clifford) focused on the evidence that supported a finding of guilt and ignored, or at least failed to address, the evidence that raised ‘other reasonable possibilities’ which were inconsistent of guilty, and thus, would have raised a reasonable doubt,” the appeal court ruled in a decision released April 21.