A Quebec man who was acquitted in 2024 of a decades-old double murder has settled a lawsuit with Montreal and the provincial government.
Claude Paquin launched the Superior Court civil suit last year, alleging that police and justice system representatives knew for decades that his 1983 murder conviction was based on false evidence.
Paquin became a free man in 2024 after Quebec’s Crown prosecutor’s office declined to try him for a second time for the 1978 murders of Ronald Bourgouin and Sylvie Revah.
He served 18 years in detention and more than 23 years on parole under strict conditions before being liberated after the federal justice minister ordered a new trial….