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A convicted killer has had his verdict overturned and a new trial ordered on what amounts to a technicality in how a new law was interpreted by the trial judge.

The scary part is, this isn’t the only case that this ruling may overturn — there are dozens of cases that could see legitimate verdicts thrown out.

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And it’s all because the Trudeau government decided to mess with centuries of legal practice.

Pardeep Chouhan was convicted last October on first-degree murder charges.

According to evidence heard at trial by both judge and jury, Chouhan shot Maninder Sandhu multiple times in the yard of the trucking company they both worked at in Toronto.

Chouhan fled town after leaving Maninder for dead, and was arrested in Surrey, British Columbia a week later.

His retrial isn’t being ordered because of unreliable evidence or witnesses, but due to a change in how juries are selected.

In February 2018, a jury in Saskatchewan acquitted farmer Gerald Stanley in the death of Colten Boushie.