A man convicted in the stabbing death of a fellow Canadian in Chicxulub has been released from prison.
The Puebla-based Collegiate Court said that Brian James Slater was convicted without ample evidence.
Slater was sentenced in June 2018 to 11 years and three months’ prison time for allegedly killing Roger Corbett in November 2016.
Evidence presented by the prosecutor was not sufficient to prove, beyond any reasonable doubt, that Slater killed Corbett, said the Third Collegiate Circuit Court of the Second Region Auxiliary Center, in Cholula, Puebla.
Slater left the prison on Friday.
The same Collegiate Court on Aug. 7 intervened in another murder case. The judge found “substantive defects during the investigation and prosecution” of Pablo Santos García Gutiérrez, ordering his immediate release.
García Gutiérrez was serving a 35-year sentence for his alleged participation in the murder of psychiatrist Felipe Triay Peniche.
Slater was charged with manslaughter in Corbett’s death. The victim ran a British Columbia company called Corbett’s Painting, and had occasionally hired Slater to work for him there.
Corbett had been in Mexico for only 12 hours before the deadly altercation. Slater and Corbett, reportedly friends for about 10 years, had been in the kitchen mixing margaritas when an argument broke out, swiftly escalating to violence, according to police.
Source: Sipse