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HAMILTON, Ont. — It’s been billed as a lookalike to the trial of Gerald Stanley, but what it has best illustrated thus far is the complexity of figuring out race in a mixed-race modern world.

Stanley, of course, is the Saskatchewan farmer who earlier this year was acquitted of second-degree murder in the 2016 death of Colten Boushie, a young First Nations man.

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It was a decision that prompted outrage among Indigenous people and led the federal government to propose sweeping changes to the jury selection system and criminal law in a bill that is still working its way through Parliament.

Here, it is Peter Khill who is charged with the same crime in the shooting death of Jon Styres, a 29-year-old Indigenous man, in February of 2016 in the quasi-rural area of Binbrook outside Hamilton.