First day of the ‘rest of my life’
Quotes from a dramatic day in court
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‘They’re only interested in the same thing I was interested in: and that’s my innocence proven and getting on with my life’
— Kyle Unger on his family’s reaction to the verdict. Unger’s parents, Treva and Wayne Unger, have steadfastly supported their son
‘My reaction to today’s Crown is, ‘Beautiful.’ They’re willing to right their wrong’
— Unger on the Crown’s move Friday to acquit him of Brigitte Grenier’s slaying
‘You take an innocent man of any culture, any walk of life, who’s destitute… and you offer him more than what he needs, you’d be surprised what you can get from that person’
— Unger on the RCMP’s "unfair" use of a sting operation to elicit what he calls a bogus confession from him
‘Tremendous’
— One Winnipegger’s reaction after Unger was acquitted. Unger said he was greeted with handshakes by strangers and was asked to autograph Free Press copies containing his story
‘Good luck’
— Court of Queen’s Bench of Manitoba Associate Chief Justice Glenn Joyal to Unger
‘I can barely remember the man’s face’
— Unger on retired prosecutor George Dangerfield. Dangerfield also prosecuted James Driskell and Thomas Sophonow, both of whom were wrongfully convicted of murder
‘It just seemed irrelevant at the time. It wasn’t admissible, the standards were different then’
— Don Slough, Manitoba’s deputy attorney general, on the lack of disclosure to Unger’s defence counsel that his co-accused, Timothy Houlahan, had broken into a woman’s home, ripped up a marriage certificate and moved her underwear, three years before Grenier’s slaying
‘The issues here are different in a large part. I acknowledge the disclosure issues, but they’re not the acute issues that they were in those cases’
— Slough on how Unger’s case is different from other wrongful convictions in the province, such as that of Sophonow and Driskell
"You’ve got to be a great prosecutor to convict so many innocent people."
— Unger’s lawyer Hersh Wolch on Unger’s retired prosecutor George Dangerfield