Project Innocence Quebec: Montreal law students get new trials for two convicted men

MONTREAL — Over the past year, a Quebec non-profit that advocates for the wrongfully convicted has convinced the federal justice minister to take a second look at two cases in which people have been declared guilty.
Project Innocence Quebec says its work led Justice Minister Arif Virani in April to order a new trial in the case of Claude Paquin, a Quebec man convicted of two counts of 1st-degree murder in 1983.
And in October, the organization was able to have the case of M.R., an individu