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Article: Canadian couple granted new trial due to questionable evidence from pathologist
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- November 8, 2007
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A judge has ordered a new trial for a Canadian couple convicted in the death of their infant son based on testimony from a discredited pathologist whose work is under investigation in 19 other cases.
Justice Morris Fish ruled 9-0 on Thursday that Marco and Anisa Trotta should have a new trial because the testimony of Dr. Charles Smith was discredited by new evidence from two other doctors.
"We think it neither safe nor sound to conclude that the verdicts on any of the charges would necessarily have been the same but for Dr. Smith's successfully impugned evidence," Fish wrote before ordering a new trial.
Marco and Anisa Trotta were convicted in 1998 in the ...