Man appeals conviction for allegedly impersonating N.S. government employee

A man convicted of impersonating a Nova Scotia government employee has launched an appeal against his conviction. Samual Shaji was found guilty of fraudulently impersonating Nargis DeMolitor, a provincial government employee whose social media accounts Shaji had managed between January and March 2023.

Court documents indicate that the passwords for DeMolitor's accounts were changed after Shaji's contract concluded. However, an antisemitic message referencing the Israel-Hamas war appeared on the accounts in October 2023, several months after Shaji's contract had ended. DeMolitor, a former Progressive Conservative candidate, was employed by then-immigration minister Jill Balser and was subsequently fired by a senior official in Premier Tim Houston's office shortly after the post was made.

Shaji's notice of appeal, a two-page document, asserts that the trial judge made an error in their assessment of "third-party suspect evidence." The details of this evidence and the specific grounds for the appeal regarding the judge's assessment were not further elaborated in the provided text.

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