Lawsuit claims deputy, forensics expert conspired to get unjust conviction for notorious 1989 Vancouver murder

A sheriff’s deputy investigating a murder in Vancouver and a state forensics examiner conspired 36 years ago to frame the victim’s husband, a lawsuit alleges.

On May 1, 1989, daycare owner Effie Entezari was shot to death, execution-style, in front of the apartment building where she lived. Eight months later, a jury convicted her husband, Mike Entezari, of the murder. Mike Entezari, an electrical engineer, spent 16 years in prison and died in 2019.

Last year, in a wrongful-death civil trial, a jury concluded it was a man named Viktor Pell who actually killed Effie Entezari…

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