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Since their convictions, they are now federal prisoners and would have been moved in a timely manner to a federal facility. Corrections Canada does not, as a general rule, release information on where prisoners are located, though in some cases it leaks out to the media via family or otherwise...

Just to clarify, it was widely reported in MSM that Jennings was not some kind of "volunteer," but rather a co-op student working at the hangar for four months as part of a diploma or degree program of some kind. In such cases the co-op worker is not on salary, his or her remuneration is the...

I didn't interpret this the same way you did. True, the first we *hear* of the Eliminator being used was in the correspondence between SS and the company. That was while DM was abroad on vacation, IIRC. However, it occurred to me that this chatty and chirpy exchange full of "wow factor"...

Yes, but remember the keys? He left the keys to Tim's truck on the keyring of the Yukon he was driving. How stupid can you get? He should have ditched those keys immediately.

Of course there's no direct connection between evidence (or not) against CN and evidence (or not) re the LB/WM cases. But there may be a similarity in modus operandi. And, since we now see that the evidence against CN was much weaker than we were led to believe (and certainly weaker than we...

It wouldn't have been based solely on the agreed statement of facts, no. Justice Skarica was also privy to plenty of behind-closed-doors discussions with Crown (and defense), to pre-trial submissions and to the witness list, assuming there was one. So he knew more about what the Crown had in...

I'm with you, but not convinced there will be much of a "next trial." I don't see how the Crown could have amassed a stronger case in the LB death than they did against CN - and they admitted they did not have direct evidence of her knowledge and involvement, therefore would have had great...

Based upon what we have just seen, I'm not expecting much from either of these projected trials, if they even come to pass. While the result of the CN debacle is certainly better than the (very real, as it turns out) possibility of her walking out free and clear with an acquittal, it was...

I can't find a media link to this yet, but before 6:00 pm news on CBC Radio 99.1 as I was driving home, the newscaster (maybe the one who did the 5:30 news) announced that CBC television would be presenting a special on the Bosma case in two weeks on a Friday, program not named. I am guessing...

A propos of this, there's no reason to suppose a mystery here. Just because Greenspan is known to represent billionaires doesn't mean he has no middle-class clients. Her parents may have needed to cash in RRSPs or take out a second mortgage or some such thing, but we don't need to hypothesize an...

No, Toni is male. A VERY fine man who served as our MPP back in the 1990's. Very principled. He stood up for the citizens who were overwhelmingly against amalgamation. He has had a distinguished career as a Crown prosecutor before being promoted to the bench.

Meant to reply earlier but forgot. If in fact DM had by some miracle been found "Not Guilty" of the murder, then AATF charges against CN would have been dropped. She could not be an accessory to a crime that (under this scenario) did not exist. The difficulty is with proving beyond a reasonable...

If no trial takes place, there will be no evidence introduced as to what CN may or may not have known. Difficult in any case to prove what she knew, unless they have texts or notes saying, hey, how was the murder or similar things. Admittedly, the "mission digestion" line was pretty much...

Thanks, that could be it. This is where trial by tweet can be frustrating, as many details are missing. I don't recall whether it was ever clarified that Wilson seized the letters (perhaps someone else did, and the object Wilson is referring to is an unknown). The principle of parsimony...

To the Crown, the benefit is that it obviates a trial and the expenditure of time and resources that entails, especially as those are under severe constraint as it is. The Crown is also not certain of a conviction even at the best of times, and in a case such as this, where mens rea is at issue...

Aha! I strongly suspected this would be the outcome as soon as I heard her family had retained Brian Greenspan. The disappointing side of this is that we will probably never know the evidence the Crown had against her and she will never receive the punishment she deserves. Plea resolution...

That fact (and others) could be introduced by means of an agreed statement of facts which both Crown and defense sign off on. This is a not uncommon procedure, though it doesn't happen in every case.

The term "medical doctor" generally refers to someone holding an M.D. (Doctor of Medicine) degree, regardless of what area of the field s/he practices in. An osteopath is not a medical doctor, nor is a chiropractor, optometrist, or naturopath, some of whom are entitled in Ontario to use the...

Yes, even Crown Tony Leitch was seemingly blindsided by her testimony about the "salacious details" (nicely put). But, IF (and it's definitely an "if") CN was lying about what was said or done on that drive, and the Croiwn had evidence to prove it, it was likely under a publication ban if there...

Here's another point of view, from the Court website, suggesting that in fact the judge did instruct the jury correctly. It's a complex discussion but quite interesting. http://www.thecourt.ca/r-v-oland-dennis-oland-got-new-trial/