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Calgary Court: Five-Man Jury and Maryam Rashidi

calgary court: The forewoman tearfully answered not guilty when asked for the verdict on Joshua Cody Mitchell's second-degree murder charge, according to CTV. Tears were running down the faces of about half of the seven-woman, five-man jury. The reaction from the jurors in Calgary Court of Queen's Bench was far different. Maryam Rashidi, 35, had been laid off from her engineering job and had recently started work at the Centex station in Calgary when she was killed two years ago while trying to stop Mitchell from taking off without paying for 113 in fuel. She died of devastating injuries. Court heard he swerved his truck to try to shake Rashidi off after she climbed on the hood and then ran over her when she fell. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.