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I'm pretty sure it came up in the B. trial that it was DM who was under a "no-contact" order with CN, not the other way around, so technically she was not committing any offense by writing to him. And, so far as we know, no letters of hers have been recovered, so we can't infer that they...

You have a lot more confidence than I do. I certainly hope you are right. I don't think I will follow her trial very closely, if at all. I just find her too totally repulsive. Not that DM and MS aren't - but I would bet they both have some kind of neurological issue - LD, CD, FAS, whatever...

When I read, earlier on, the judge's explanation of the three essential elements that each had to be proved beyond a reasonable doubt for a verdict of guilty of criminal negligence, I was reasonably certain that, based on the evidence presented(so far as I could ascertain - the tweets and news...

I wondered about those (likely) texts, too. But, if she did write texts on the drive, and those texts clearly showed she was aware that DM had committed murder, CN would have to know about those texts being in the possession of the Crown, because all that had to be disclosed to her lawyer. Even...

A Crown expert witness, Bob Johnson, who was Curator of Reptiles at the Toronto Zoo for several decades, testified today and shed light on several of these points. I've been following the case with some interest, because it's quite unusual for a captive-raised snake to be so aggressive, and it...

One would certainly think so! But I don't totally exclude the possibility that this criminal genius (ha) wrote something - say, on the reverse side of one of CN's letters - and gave it to MB to give back to CN. Not very likely, but OTOH there must be written evidence of some kind to demonstrate...

Technically, I believe the $14 million in the civil suit on behalf of the Bosma family does not count as a debt/debit against DM's assets at this point in time, as it has not yet gone to court, and only after a court judgement against DM will that amount, or a portion of it, be a debt payable by...

I was especially pleased by this bit: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/shafia-family-honour-killings-new-trial-1.3832670 Too bad Mohammed Shafia's millions (which he was careful to confirm, BEFORE the murders, would still be under his control if he were serving time in prison) cannot be...

What makes charges or a prosecution unlikely, I believe, is not the statute of limitations, which is (as you state) not applicable in cases of murder, but the difficulty in coming up with enough evidence to lay charges, or put together a reasonable case. Even if a body is found, it will likely...

The chance of the new owner coming across a body buried on a large farm property would be very, very slim, and with both parents out of the picture now, what is there to worry about? But, if they were very cunning, they could have used an excavator and buried the body first, and higher up...

I think that whether she would be protected by her "I don't remember" story from charges of perjury will depend on the evidence. If there are texts or writings (such as draft letters to DM) where she says that if asked she will pretend not to remember (etc.), then that would be evidence she...

No, I don't think there's anything "sudden" here, nor anything unusual about the timeline. From what has been reported, we know that NH was first reported missing in winter 2015. Police undoubtedly thought the story was odd, possibly suspicious (given such a long period of time passing), but...

One of the reports I heard on the radio said that the father had died "several years ago," which doesn't sound like "more than 10." It's likely that at this point, no one has been able to do any real research into the facts of the case and when reporting word-of-mouth information, dates and...

Her testimony in the Bosma trial cannot be used against her in the upcoming trial, BUT if the evidence against her in the trial to come proves that she was lying under oath in the Bosma trial, her testimony there can then be used as grounds for perjury proceedings against her (both the Charter...

Police have said they are reasonably certain that a homicide has occurred and that the remains of the victim are buried on the property in question. They must have some reliable information to be committing a great deal of manpower and machinery to investigating the property to find the body...

I doubt that it's a matter of DM having "burned through" a lot of money - though his defense for the Bosma trial undoubtedly cost him a whopping sum. Top criminal lawyers charge north of $1000/hr (Marie Henein, who represented Jian Ghomeshi, is said to charge $1500-2000/hr). Nationally, the...

Absolutely. I can still remember how certain we (most of the public, including myself) were that Rob Baltovich was guilty, or that Guy Paul Morin was the killer of Christine Jessop. In both cases the police and prosecution were obsessed with finding evidence to fit their theory, rather than...

There's more in this report from CTV News Kitchener. I couldn't get the video clip to play, however. http://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/foul-play-suspected-in-case-of-woman-who-vanished-in-2006-1.3136814 Weirdly, I was driving east on Concession 8 West in Flamborough and heard this story on the car...

It appears that Dennis Oland's conviction has been overturned; he is free on bail and a judge has ordered a new trial due to flaws in the original trial judge's instructions to the jury...

It is quite possible that the reason DM's trial lawyers in the Bosma case (Pillay & co.) may not be lawyers who handle appeals. This is fairly common - some lawyers don't do appeals, while others may specialize in them. Still others, like Dungey, appear to be comfortable handling both...