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As I interpret the article, it would appear DM has been approved for legal aid in his defense in the WM murder trial, but it is not necessarily true that DM will receive legal aid for the LB trial (which is what another round of litigation is about). His status re the LB trial is separate...

The reason you cannot find out anything about the proceedings in the preliminary hearing (which was, as you noted, open to the general public) is because all of that is under a publication ban. Here's a link...

This puzzled me, too. I haven't personally researched this yet, but a plausible explanation was provided by a lawyer interviewed on CBC Radio's As It Happens last night (I was driving, so couldn't take notes). He explained that the apparent inconsistency is due to a jurisdictional issue. Only...

According to his testimony, he had a police scanner in the car, and when he heard that an army of cops were converging on the kidnap site, he decided to drive much farther away, back to Paynesville which was his home turf. He stopped by a gravel pit and excavation site, had Jacob get out of the...

Thank you, I was spelling it wrong, so that's why I missed it. The posts to it I've seen seemed pretty innocuous, though. Whether she's tuned it down in response to firm suggestions, we can't say. I tend to agree with the person who opined that she's kind of a loose cannon who doesn't heed...

I was thinking the exact same thing - that CN has some kind of disorder in social perception, where she completely misreads how her behaviour is perceived by others. Of course, she may not care either - but it's possible that she genuinely thinks others are as impressed with her as she thinks...

The main thing that needs to be proven is that CN knew that DM had committed a murder when she assisted him. I share your worry that there may be significant difficulty in proving what she knew. On the other hand, we have no information on what evidence the Crown has against her. It must be...

You may be confusing Eddie Greenspan and Brian Greenspan. Both are (were, in Eddie's case - he has been deceased for a couple of years) very well respected criminal lawyers. They are brothers, but did not practice together, and had different styles -- Eddie sought the limelight and high-profile...

Brian Greenspan has an outstanding reputation (among judges and fellow lawyers, not simply with the public), and has no need to boost his profile or seek out clients. While the cases where he defends fairly ordinary middle class people don't make the headlines, he does take on such cases, on a...

Presumably they are at Millhaven for the intake and assessment process, which takes several weeks; after that they will be assigned to a maximum security prison but the location will not be made public. As for internet access, no, prisoners do not have internet access, supervised or not. For...

Just rereading this thread after a long absence. A propos of Alison Parrott, yes, she had some kind of French background - she was enrolled at Ecole Publique Gabrielle Roi, the only Toronto School Board's French language (not French immersion) school. To be a student there, one or both parents...

Found this interesting article about Snider's disappearance as well: http://strangeco.blogspot.ca/2014/06/the-jockey-who-rode-into-oblivion.html It strikes as highly suspicious, to say the least.

Foul play was suspected by some. It's mentioned in this documentary about Citation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1803k520Mi0 Start at around 13:00, can't get it to pause at the exact spot. It appears that others were missing with him, and this isn't mentioned in most sources. Also, a...

This bears repeating, sorry to be late to the party on this one. Neither personality disorders, nor diagnosable neurological abnormalities (such as psychopathy, FAS, and some others) have any necessary relationship to criminal responsibility, guilt or innocence. They can conceivably (big...

I have not read the entire thread, so may have missed something. But, what I hear people saying, who feel that M2 would have been a more just verdict for MS, is not that "the jury is wrong" but something like, "I feel, based on how I understand the evidence - which is admittedly less completely...

Hmmm, That's odd. Mine is a 2013 but does not have OnStar to my knowledge (and I read the manual). I'll check it again.They tried to sell me every bleeping add-on possible so it's hard to believe that I could have had it as an option if it's not there now. The year of Igor's RAM was mentioned...

I thought On-Star was only for GM vehicles? I have a Dodge and it wasn't an option that I know of. Anybody know?

No, there have been posts about that, but the law making murder (or even accidental death) during a felony like theft or burglary automatically Murder 1 is a USA law, not Canadian. It's automatically Murder 1 here if it occurs during a hijacking, kidnapping, terrorist incident and a few other...

It seemed to me that a major factor differentiating the Igor truck drive and the TB truck drive was location, location, location. Igor being a really big guy and potentially difficult to take down may also have been a factor of course, but realistically, how were they going to off Igor in the...

Adam Carter explained in that Facebook CBC video that MB could not have attended court whether she wanted to or not, because she had been subpoenaed as a Crown witness. Though the Crown didn't end up calling her, according to Carter this meant she could not attend court. Here's a link, the...