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Crown concedes appeal of convicted double-murderer just days after dropping case against second suspect

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Defence lawyer Balfour Der says he received a letter from the prosecution saying they would not oppose his application for a new trial for Leonard Brian Cochrane .

Last Friday , the prosecution stayed two first-degree murder charges against Stuart Douglas MacGregor in a cold-case double homicide case.

Cochrane was convicted of two counts of murder in the killings of Barry Buchart and Trevor Deakins.

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