STORY:
"Guilty verdict set aside in alleged shaken-baby case: Crown to
determine whether Colin Matchim will be tried again," published by CBC
News on September 9, 2013.
PHOTO-CAPTION: "
Colin Matchim, seen during a court appearance earlier this year, is no longer considered guilty of aggravated assault."
GIST:
"A St. John's judge set aside a guilty verdict on Monday involving
Colin Matchim, a man who was accused of shaking and severely injuring
his infant daughter. Matchim was convicted of aggravated assault in May
2011, more than two years after his daughter was brought to hospital. In
a decision handed down Monday at Supreme Court of Newfoundland and
Labrador, Justice Wayne Dymond ruled that new medical evidence presented
after the guilty verdict would be permissible at a new trial. The
defence's evidence could raise reasonable doubt about whether the
girl, who was four months old at the time, had been injured through
shaking. Expert medical wtinesses said there could have been an
underlying medical condition that caused the baby's bleeding on the
brain. During a court hearing this June, the Crown also called expert
witnesses who said the trauma of being shaken likely caused the
injuries."
The entire decision can be found at:
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?shva=1#all/14103f42938744af
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