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Court orders fouth trial for Kelly Ellard

05-Sep-2008
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THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER–A B.C. Appeal Court has overturned the conviction of Kelly Ellard and ordered a fourth trial for the then-teenaged girl in the murder of 14-year-old Reena Virk. Ellard was convicted in the beating and drowning of Virk near Victoria in 1997 in a case that stunned the country because most of Virk's attackers were teenaged girls. Her lawyer argued at a hearing in May that the jury... [read full story]                    

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