A three-member Alberta Court of Appeal panel said there were errors in the conviction of Robert Daignault

Alberta’s top court has overturned the manslaughter conviction of a city man in the fatal stabbing of a Calgary Uber driver nearly six years ago.

In a unanimous decision released Monday, a three-member Alberta Court of Appeal panel agreed with defence counsel Andrea Serink there were errors in the conviction of Robert Daignault .

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But the appeal judges said despite issues with the prosecution’s two critical witnesses, they declined Serink’s application for an outright acquittal and ordered a new trial.

The appeal court agreed Justice Eleanor Funk erred in her approach to the evidence of two accomplices in the killing of Uber driver Kasif Hirani, Trista Tinkler

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