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Man Convicted of Manslaughter Exonerated

A man convicted of killing his wife 45 years ago in Woodstock has been acquitted of manslaughter.

A man convicted of killing his wife 45 years ago in Woodstock has been acquitted of manslaughter.

The Ontario Court of Appeal has exonerated 75 year old John Salmon. Salmon was convicted of manslaughter in the 1970 death of Maxine Ditchfield in Woodstock and served four years in prison before he was paroled. In an interview with the Toronto Star, Salmon says the pair were drinking heavily on the night she died and that he was wrongfully convicted of murder 45 years ago.

Ditchfield had severe bruising on her face and at the first trial an expert said she died from severe trauma to her head. However three pathologists hired by the Association in Defence of the Wrongly Convicted re-examine the evidence and concluded that Ditchfield died after falling multiple times due to a stroke.

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