Trial judge’s ‘lack of direction’ to jury merited retrial in murder case, lawyer says

By Jeff Buckstein (March 24, 2023, 9:45 AM EDT) -- Citing the trial court’s “failure to give the jury guidance” the Court of Appeal for Ontario ordered new trials for two men convicted after a brutal slaying in 2014. In R. v. Nagy, 2023 ONCA 184, announced March 20, Bradley MacGarvie successfully appealed his first-degree murder conviction and Thomas Nagy successfully appealed a second-degree murder conviction in Ontario’s Superior Court of Justice in 2017....