Laptop containing Bitcoin wallet ordered returned to murderer's family
Original headline비트코인 지갑 든 노트북, 살인범 가족에 반환 명령
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Nova Scotia's Supreme Court has ordered the return of a laptop holding a Bitcoin wallet to the family of William Sandeson, who is serving a life sentence for the 2015 murder of Dalhousie University student Taylor Samson. Justice John Bodurtha ruled that prosecutors failed to establish a link between the bitcoin and the murder, drug transactions, or proceeds of crime, leaving no grounds to continue holding the wallet. The decision, reported by Decrypt, turns on the state's inability to trace the cryptocurrency to criminal activity rather than on ownership of the laptop itself. It matters as a precedent for how Canadian courts treat seized crypto assets when the prosecution cannot prove a criminal nexus. What to watch next is whether the Crown appeals the ruling or moves to seize the wallet's contents through a separate proceeds-of-crime application.
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