Gerald Bernard Klassen spent more than a quarter century in jail for the first-degree murder of 22-year-old Julie McLeod in 1993 — a crime he has always maintained he did not commit.
This week, Federal Justice Minister David Lametti concluded the B.C. man’s 1995 conviction was likely a miscarriage of justice, ordering a new trial after a years-long effort by the University of B.C.’s Innocence Project.
Project director Tamara Levy says she and the two lawyers who handled the case reached Klassen by phone to tell him the news.
“He was very pleased as you can imagine,” Levy told the CBC.
“But it’s been a
