son died from meningitis in 2012
CP NewsAlert: Alberta Appeal Court orders 3rd trial for parents in toddler’s death
Mar 8, 2021 | 12:33 PM
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CALGARY — Alberta’s top court has ordered a third trial for a couple originally convicted then found not guilty in the death of their ill son.
The Alberta Court of Appeal has granted a request by the Crown to overturn the 2019 acquittal of David and Collet Stephan.
The Stephans were accused of not seeking medical attention sooner for 19-month-old Ezekiel, who had meningitis when he died in 2012.
A jury convicted the couple in 2016, but the Supreme Court of Canada overturned that verdict and ordered a second trial at which a judge acquitted them.
