On the morning of October 9, 2015, five full-patch Hells Angels members filed into a heavy-security courtroom at a specially-built courthouse in north-end Montreal.
They were among 100 Quebec Hells Angels arrested in sweeping raids in 2009 and accused of conspiring to murder more than 150 people during Quebec's biker war in the 1990s.
The five men in court in October 2015 had been charged with first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder.
But in a stunning move, Superior Court Justice James Brunton ordered a stay of proceedings and ruled that the five men should be set free.
The last episode of our podcast, The Dark North: Gangs of Montreal, looks at that court case and the fate of the Hells Angels since 2015.
Montreal's underworld looks very different today than it did in 1977, where our story began.
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Introducing She's Gone
Gangs of Montreal: Taking down the Rizzutos
Gangs of Montreal: Vito Rizzuto, Global Superboss
Gangs of Montreal: The biker war
Gangs of Montreal: Rise of the street gangs
Gangs of Montreal: The West End Gang and the robbery of the century
Gangs of Montreal: Kings of coke
Gangs of Montreal: How it all began
Coming soon: The Dark North
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