CBC THE FIFTH ESTATE: A QUESTION OF INNOCENCE

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CBC THE FIFTH ESTATE A QUESTION OF INNOCENCE
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THE CASE OF LUDMILA LLINA

• Summer 1995- Ludmila Llina work up preparing for
  a business trip
• Went to husbands bedroom- found bed not slept in
  and door unlocked
• Outside the house she discovered her husbands
  bloodied body
• He'd been brutally beaten, bludgeoned, dragged
  outside and left to die with his bicycle on top
  of him

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LUDMILA LLINA CASE CONTINUED

• Paramedics found her sitting on her front steps
  with her husbands body not far away
• Police arrested her and charged her with 2nd
  degree murder
• She has claimed innocence for the last 16 years
• She was convicted, sent to prison and has
  exhausted her appeals

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LUDMILA LLINA CASE CONTINUED

• The Innocence Project, set up at York U.s
  Osgoode Hall has agreed to look at her case
• The Innocence Project, set up by Alan Young is
  dedicated to exonerating wrongfully convicted
  people
• She has no previous criminal history, nor history
  of violence
• If they can prove case was flawed, she may get a
  new trial and evidence used to convict her may
  now acquit her
• This is her last appeal