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Sudbury killer facing sex, forcible confinement charges in North Bay New charges

Lots of new voir-dire info here: Voir-Dire: what the public didn’t hear during the Wright trial

Some more details from today here: 'Renée got justice': Family erupts with joy at guilty verdict I get that they are hurting but this feels rather tasteless to me with Sweeney's family and supporters present. Have to feel the recommendation of 23 years is a poignant one given Renee Sweeney's...

Wonder what to make of the "footprint impression taken from Nepahwin Avenue" discussed here, which only came up briefly early on -- do they really mean footprint or shoeprint I wonder, given the similarity to the Brooks print in the bathroom?

Interesting detail that Fetterly was a defence witness they chose not to call, only for them to throw shade at the Crown for not calling him in the closing statement.

I remember a photo from the time with the jacket, the diaper pin, and the white gloves -- can't remember if it's come up in the media coverage since the trial but CTV News has a file image here...

Also, the prints they have from the cash were in Sweeney's blood, no? Why would we expect the robber/killer to get his victim's blood all over *every single thing* he touched, instead of accidentally smearing blood in spots? By this logic, no one did the murder and robbery if there weren't...

Very strange, circuitous way of the Defence saying, "We have no photo evidence from 1998 of RSW with scratches on his face or body," and the people who saw him for a few seconds while fleeing that day didn't notice scratches. Why would there be existing evidence of him having wounds if he was...

I'm a bit surprised the Defence didn't hammer home the detail they harped on earlier, that the majority of the accused's DNA was found in the "debris" in the jar that included her fingernails rather than under the fingernails themselves. Makes me think it was either over-reported on or the...

Wild that the defence hinges on an alternate suspect that's already been charged, and already dismissed by the police themselves in 1998. I feel like the Crown could have done a better job of exposing the shoddy police work his arrest was founded on, but I suspect you're right that they didn't...

Sigh. Judge also seems to be instructing them to only stay home if they have symptoms, rather than to vigilantly test, which feels backward unless you want the whole jury to get it.

Agree. The most logical explanation, if it's an occasionally shared family jacket and not his usual winter coat, is that he wore it that day to go incognito -- either because he was embarrassed to be seen going to or being in the store, because he planned to steal something, or because he...

I started there the next year. One of my older siblings had classes with him and didn't remember him all that well except to say that he was quiet, nice, a bit nerdy -- was taken aback when he was arrested. I definitely remember seeing the photo of the jacket. It was everywhere on the news, in...

With a trial scheduled to run in excess of 4 weeks, it seems irresponsible to me to not require covid precautions like masks in the courtroom to minimize the possibility of disruptions like this. It's even unfair to the defendant, who has been waiting to have his time in court for more than four...