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Luka Magnotta withdraws appeal of 1st-degree murder conviction

Lawyer Luc Leclair had been applying to appeal sentence handed down after December guilty verdict

CBC News Posted: Feb 18, 2015 9:55 AM ET Last Updated: Feb 18, 2015 10:06 AM ET

Luka Magnotta has dropped an appeal of a conviction in the first-degree murder of engineering student Jun Lin. 

Magnotta's lawyer, Luc Leclair, made the move on his client's behalf Tuesday morning in Montreal at the Quebec Court of Appeal.

In December, a jury found the 32-year-old guilty of the 2012 first-degree murder of Lin, a Chinese engineering student. 

Magnotta was also found guilty of:

• Committing an indignity to a body.
• Publishing obscene material.
• Mailing obscene material.
• Criminal harassment.

He admitted to committing the acts, but Leclair argued he should have been found not criminally responsible because of mental-health issues.

Leclair filed the appeal with the Quebec Court of Appeal on Jan. 15. It cites judicial error in jury instruction, and that the "verdicts are unreasonable and unsupported by the evidence and the instructions."

Leclair had also put forward further reasons for a leave to appeal, which would require the court's permission to proceed.

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Gwokto La'Kitgum

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