STORY: "Nicole Kish's appeal in Ross Hammond 2007 murder to be heard later this month," by reporter Michelle Mandel, published by the Toronto Sun on October 10, 2013.
GIST: "To her legion of international supporters, “panhandler” Nicole Kish is the Canadian equivalent of Amanda Knox. Like the American student, they insist Kish has been unfairly portrayed in the media and wrongly convicted of murder. And they’re hoping her long-awaited appeal later this month will finally set her free after more than two difficult years in prison... “There was a significant hole in the Crown’s case,” argues her lawyer Phil Campbell in his factum filed with the Court of Appeal. “No one saw her — or anyone else — with a knife during the fight on the north side of Queen St. where the Crown alleged that Hammond suffered the fatal wounds.” He contends the verdict was unreasonable: the eyewitness testimony was all over the map with many mistaking Kish for her lookalike friend Faith Watts, an American who admitted producing a knife in the altercation but said she’d blacked out and couldn’t remember what happened. Hammond’s buddy had even identified Watts out of a photo lineup as the angry woman who’d asked them for cash. “Watts and (Kish) were dressed in a similar punk style, and witnesses could easily have confused one for the other,” Campbell writes in his factum. “Numerous deposits of Hammond’s DNA were located on Watts’s clothing, including the shafts of her boots and the back of her shorts, while only a small speck of his DNA was found on the rubber toe cap of the Appellant’s shoe,” he tells the appeal court. “It is difficult to see how (Kish), flailing wildly atop Hammond on the north side of the street, while stabbing him four times in the chest, would have received only a single, tiny deposit on her shoe.”
Watts has not had an opportunity to respond to the factum Kish’s legal team has filed nor have any of the allegations contained in it been proven in court."
The entire story can be found at:
http://www.torontosun.com/2013/10/10/nicole-kishs-appeal-in-ross-hammond-2007-murder-to-be-heard-later-this-month
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