Overview

• Prosecutor Benoit Lauzon informed Daniel Jolivet’s lawyer in June that there is reason to believe Jolivet did not receive a fair trial.
• The Crown says it cannot rule out a miscarriage of justice in the case.
• A review highlights heavy reliance on testimony from a questionable informant and suggests defence counsel may not have received all relevant documents.
• Jolivet was convicted in the 1992 Brossard shootings of two men and two women on two first-degree and two second-degree murder counts.
• His conviction was overturned on appeal due to a trial-judge error before the Supreme Court of Canada reinstated it in 2000, and the case now awaits any federal response.