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Where we left off, the Stephens were found guilty by a jury, and then they appealed their sentence.

The verdict was upheld by the Alberta Court of Appeal, but because the ruling wasn't unanimous,

the Stephens were eligible to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada.

In May of 2018, the Supreme Court quashed their convictions and ordered a new trial for David and Colette Steffen.

Several months before the trial began, David Steffin started a new fundraising account on Go Get Funding,

asking for $150,000 with the headline,

Stand for Truth, funding for medical experts to further verify the true cause of death of

Ezekiel Stephan. He wrote that the medical experts would be able to substantiate what the real

events were that led to

Ezekiel's death. The post was accompanied by a video from David and paragraphs upon paragraphs

of text that detailed their side of events and contained multiple screenshots and diagrams that

David claimed proved his points.

He claimed that they were railroaded by the judge in the first trial,

who placed the jury in a position where they had no choice but to decide on a guilty verdict.

He outlined a number of other claims, alleging that there was no evidence of meningitis

on the CT scan, and that doctors were looking for an alternative cause of death to cover up

Ezekiel's real cause of death. He brought up the ill-equipped ambulance that came from Cardston,

about 40 kilometres away,

instead of the Glenwood ambulance which was much closer.

As you'll recall, this seemed to be a result of Alberta Health Services taking over local ambulance service,

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