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Cindy Ali is finally free. On Friday, January 19, 2024 a judge acquitted her of all charges in the death of her daughter Cynara. Her family and her church community stood beside her as they have since the beginning.
@cbcdocs@InnocenceCanada#Cynara
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Justice for Cindy!
Cindy Ali, who was previously found guilty in the death of her daughter, has been acquitted in a retrial. Friends and supporters gathered to receive the long-awaited verdict.
Photos: Michelle Shephard
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โOntario Superior Court Justice Jane Kelly handed down the verdict to a courtroom full of Cindy Aliโs family, friends, and supporters.ย She also found Ali not guilty of the lesser offences of second-degree murder and manslaughter.โ @ctvnews@CTVToronto
https://t.co/y6uLtSJhsA
โToronto mother Cindy Ali has been found not guilty in the sudden death of her severely disabled daughter in a verdict โ met with applause in a packed courtroom Friday morning โ that brings to an end a prosecution that spanned two trials and more than a decade.โ @Jleerankin
Voting for nominations is now open for members of the Canadian Academy @TheCdnAcademy. Keep an eye out for CYNARA and vote by January 19!
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A prosecution theory that Cindy Ali loved her 16-year-old daughter Cynara so much that she smothered her to end her suffering amounts to โrank speculationโ โ a baseless motive plucked from โthin air,โ her legal team argued at the close of Aliโs 2nd trial.
https://t.co/7Ou55Exp38
The prosecutor seeking to convict Cindy Ali in the 2011 death of her disabled daughter said during final arguments that the murder was carried out as an act of mercy to relieve the girl from suffering โa theory the defense said was โplucked from thin airโ and based on stereotypes
The Innocence Files (2020): Based on the work of The Innocence Project, this miniseries unpacks several wrongful conviction cases. Directed by Roger Ross Williams, Jed Rothstein, Sarah Dowland, Liz Garbus, Alex Gibney, and Andy Grieve.
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A Murder in the Park (2014) - A former death-row inmate who was spared the death penalty thanks to the efforts of a college journalism program - was actually guilty, and an innocent man was sent to prison. Directed by @shawnrech, Brandon Kimber
In the more than a decade since Cynaraโs death, the Ali family has repeatedly sworn that she was deeply loved and celebrated.
Watch the story on @CTVToronto:
https://t.co/Us7oYhCGjT
โWeโre still together, weโre still strong and weโre still a family,โ
"After being convicted of first-degree murder in connection with the death of her daughter, Cynara, in 2016 and successfully appealing that conviction five years later, Cindy's retrial began in October."