I very much agree with you Robynhood, it is CARP! This isn't even fighting the three VERY SERIOUS charges he was found GUILTY of; ABDUCTION, SEXUAL ASSAULT CAUSING BODILY HARM AND MURDER! Bottom line is he was found guilty of all three, has not denied the charges but looking to place blame on judge Heeney. What is there to appeal for Pete sake?! He's pathetic and only doing this
because he can I've said it may times on Tori's forum and I'll say it again,
"desperate people do desperate things". If the judicial system is going to allow him away with this BS, he will just keep upping the anti. We all know judge Heeney instructed the jurors properly and they understood the required evidence to convict him of first-degree murder, otherwise how could they have come to the guilty verdict. How did they sit through all those days of trial, take in all the evidence and come away with the three convictions?!!! Pfft MR is a total loser and will be denied legal aid IMO. What I find strange is why are they dealing with the legal aid business first? Wouldn't one think his appeal would have to be cleared before he is granted legal aid? What's the point in having a lawyer if you're appeal is denied? The filed his appeal based on judge errors shortly after his conviction and was even granted extended time. It kinda like putting the cart before the horse. I feel bad for the other province/people who gets stuck with him. I find it enlightening also though because because wherever he is moved to takes him farther from anyone who
might have visited him. Then again he may have had no visitors period.
I probably shouldn't go in this direction but, say he is granted a new trial, I wonder if he will be brought back to Ontario or if it will be in whatever province he is incarcerated in. I don't believe we need to go that far though as I don't see his appeal being granted.
So heartbreaking to think of the BS this is putting Tori's family through. It upsets me that the criminal is given more rights than the victim and her family. July 15th this year Victoria would have turned 13...a teenager. Her family has suffered enough and it's time to close the book on MR and be done with him so Victoria's family can start to heal.