Yves Plamondon initiated court action seeking compensation, arguing prosecution had failed to disclose certain evidence to him
The Supreme Court of Canada will not hear the appeal of a Quebec man seeking compensation over imprisonment for murders he says he did not commit.
Yves Plamondon spent almost 28 years behind bars for the first-degree murders of three people in the 1980s. Plamondon was released in early 2014 pending a new trial ordered by the Quebec Court of Appeal, but the Crown elected not to proceed. He initiated court action seeking compensation, arguing there had been a miscarriage of justice because the prosecution had failed to disclose certain evidence to him.
A Quebec judge dismissed Plamondon’s action, saying the information in question had not been intentionally withheld and would not have affected the verdict in any event.
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