Oct 5, 2023
On a cloudy, rainy Tuesday O’Neil entered a courtroom at 361 University Avenue in Toronto with his lawyer, Innocence Canada co-founder James Lockyer. Many of O’Neil’s close friends were present to hear the announcement that the charges against O’Neil had been...
Oct 5, 2023
Today the Minister of Justice, the Honourable Peter MacKay, announced that he was sending Frank Ostrowski’s murder conviction back to the Manitoba Court of Appeal for it to be re-considered by the Court. Innocence Canada lawyers James Lockyer and Alan Libman will be...
Oct 5, 2023
In a Halifax, Nova Scotia courtroom on March 1, 2019, Justice James L. Chipman of the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia spoke the words that Glen Assoun had prayed for, dreamed of and fought for, for twenty-one painful and challenging years. For seventeen of those years he...
Oct 5, 2023
The Case In June 1996, Joyce Hayman brought her four-year-old son, Randy, to Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) after a babysitter had taken him to Toronto Western Hospital, concerned about a possible Ritalin overdose. It was confirmed that Randy had a...
Sep 4, 2025
The Case Bernard’s (Bernie) life changed dramatically on August 16, 1996. While holding 17-month-old Tyler Cunningham in his arms and dancing to music, he suddenly tripped over his roofing tools that were lying on the floor. Bernie landed on top of Tyler, whose...
