Morning Update: Two New Brunswick men acquitted of 1983 murder after convictions were overturned

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Good morning, More than 40 years after they were convicted of murder, Robert Mailman, 76, and Walter Gillespie, 80, walked out of a Saint John courthouse Thursday acquitted of a killing they had always insisted they never committed. Gillespie trembled and wiped tears, as he told reporters in Saint John that he didn’t think this day would come. “I just want to thank everybody,” he said, his voice breaking with emotion. Mailman, who is terminally ill with cancer and expected to live only a few more months, walked stiffly toward a scrum of reporters. His voice was too weak to...