Canadian judge orders Bitcoin wallet returned to family of convicted killer William Sandeson

A Nova Scotia court found prosecutors failed to tie the crypto on a seized laptop to the 2015 killing of Taylor Samson A Nova Scotia judge has ruled that a laptop holding a Bitcoin wallet must go back to the family of William Sandeson. Sandeson is serving a life sentence for the 2015 murder of fellow university student Taylor Samson. The reason is simple. The Crown could not prove the crypto had anything to do with the crime. Justice John Bodurtha of the Nova Scotia Supreme Court issued the decision on Tuesday, November 3, according to Global News. Prosecutors had sought to keep the device and its contents. What the court decided The core finding is narrow but significant. Bodurtha determined that prosecutors had not shown the digital assets on the laptop were proceeds of crime. He also found they had not been connected to Samson’s killing. Not every seized asset got the same treatment. The court upheld the forfeiture of C$5,000 in cash found in Sandeson’s Halifax apartment. That money was deemed proceeds of crime. The value of the wallet is where things get murky. Sandeson himself put the figure at approximately C$8,000. Other estimates tied to civil litigation run to more than C$...