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Michael Swan, 19, was shot by a masked gunman one of three armed intruders who broke into his Barrhaven home on Feb. 22, 2010. They were looking to steal cash and marijuana.
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One of Swan’s high school acquaintances, Sam Tsega, had told the men that Swan was a drug dealer and had showed them where he lived. The three men who broke into the home were from Toronto where Tsega had previously lived.
Earlier this year, in convicting Tsega of manslaughter, Ontario Superior Court Justice Sally Gomery found that he did not take part in planning the robbery and did not know that two of the men involved had handguns.
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The explosive testimony was revealed in a stunning cross-examination piloted by top defence lawyer Solomon Friedman on June 25.
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Friedman handily dismantled the police narrative and had their star witness, under oath, unravel all the lies the ones the so-called witness told from the start to the 911 operator, right to the end in an interview room with seasoned Det. Guy Seguin.
Friedman didn’t even get to finish his master-class in cross-examination because he had already left the police narrative, along with the credibility of the force’s star witness, in tatters only halfway through so much so that Tim Wightman, the assistant Crown attorney assigned to adopt and prosecute the flawed police case, stood up and ordered that Michael Leduc, the accused killer, be immediately released on bail in light
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