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That evidence, he said, was incompatible with common sense and contradicted by other, more reliable evidence.

For instance, Neubauer said, Boyle testified that during a car ride on the night of Dec. 30, 2017 — the night of his arrest — he had a conversation with Lynda Coleman, during which he told her she would have to be more involved in caring for her daughter. Boyle testified that he told his mother-in-law the couple would be taking separate vacations.

In her testimony, however, Lynda Coleman told court Boyle said nothing of the sort as he drove her back to her hotel in downtown Ottawa. She later made notes of the conversation, she said, because it was so strange.

According to Lynda Coleman, she complimented Boyle on the dinner he had prepared and on his cooking in order to “calm the water” since she knew he was angry. When Boyle said his wife doesn’t want him to cook, Coleman said she didn’t believe that and told Boyle he should encourage the idea.

“I’m really tired of all this backbiting,” Boyle said in reply, according to Lynda Coleman, who expressed shock at the sudden turn in the conversation.

Neubauer said the difference in the two accounts of what happened in that car makes it clear that Boyle’s narrative is based in fiction: “Mr. Boyle’s evidence regarding that conversation includes outright laws, not honest mistakes,” he charged.

He accused Boyle of being evasive, argumentative and unresponsive as a witness while “attempting to push a narrative that doesn’t conform with the truth.”