Nova Scotia court upholds ruling against wrongfully convicted man

A Nova Scotia court has rejected the appeal of man who argued unsuccessfully last year that RCMP negligence caused his wrongful conviction on a statutory rape charge 45 years ago. Gerry Barton's lawyer argued at a hearing in January that a Nova Scotia Supreme Court judge erred a year ago when he cleared the RCMP of wrongdoing.

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