Missed underscore led to wrongful imprisonment: Nova Scotia man exonerated after 18 months
TL;DR
Brandon Klayme of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, spent 18 months in prison after investigators chasing a Wisconsin child-exploitation case followed a misspelled Kik username—omitting one underscore—and wrongly identified him. The Nova Scotia Court of Appeal overturned his conviction, ruling the case should never have gone to trial and that the evidence was based on a simple username error.
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