Canada - Scott Andrew Rosen, 52, lawyer, Hit & Run homicide, Toronto (Mt Pleasant/Eglinton) 18 Dec. 2020

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‘This is a case about money and murder’: Trial begins in hit-and-run killing of Toronto lawyer Scott Rosen

Anh Chiem is charged with first-degree murder for allegedly running over Toronto civil litigator Scott Rosen — who represented her ex-son-in-law in a lawsuit against her — in a midtown Toronto underground parking lot.

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Trial begins in hit-and-run killing of Toronto lawyer Scott Rosen​

 

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‘This is a case about money and murder’: Trial begins in hit-and-run killing of Toronto lawyer Scott Rosen

Anh Chiem is charged with first-degree murder for allegedly running over Toronto civil litigator Scott Rosen — who represented her ex-son-in-law in a lawsuit against her — in a midtown Toronto underground parking lot.

www.thestar.com

''A woman embittered over a long-standing lawsuit and “disgusted” with the justice system rented a U-Haul truck and fatally struck the Toronto lawyer who opposed her in the litigation, a jury heard Monday.

“This is a case about money and murder,” Crown attorney Corie Langdon told a Superior Court jury Monday during her opening address at the murder trial of Anh Chiem.

Chiem, 64, has pleaded not guilty to the first-degree murder of civil litigator Scott Rosen, 52, who died of the “catastrophic” injuries he received in a mid-Toronto underground parking lot on Dec. 18, 2020.

Around 5:30 p.m. that afternoon, surveillance video captured Rosen walking into the underground parking garage of his law office at 234 Eglinton Ave. E., as a white pickup truck accelerated at a high rate of speed, striking him, reversing and hitting him again. The vehicle then fled the scene.'

''The trial in front of Justice Peter Bawden continues Tuesday.''

 

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April 20 2023 rbbm.

MANDEL: Accused killer wasn't driving truck that ran down Toronto lawyer, jury told

Woman to testify she rented the U-Haul pickup truck - but not on the day her nemesis was killed in the underground garage of his office.

torontosun.com

''Anh Chiem wasn’t the driver who ran down civil litigation lawyer Scott Rosen with a U-Haul pickup truck in the underground of his Eglinton Ave. E. office building.
Instead, her lawyer told the jury, Chiem will tell them that while she had rented the truck for several days in advance of the shocking murder, she wasn’t the one behind the wheel on Dec. 18, 2020.''

''The implication was that It was some mystery driver who struck the 52-year-old father of two, reversed over him, and then fled the scene.

“Recall the Crown told you at the outset in her opening statement that this was a case about money and murder,” the defence lawyer said in her opening statement. “I remind you that it is also one about identification, a case about who was driving the U-Haul pickup truck on Dec. 18, 2020 and Ms. Chiem will tell you that it was not her.”

''On Oct. 18, 2020, she testified that her fiancé at the time helped her draft an email to the trustee in bankruptcy, accusing Rosen of “fraudulent behaviour including false and misleading statements to you. Be it known to you Mr. Rosen has made this case personal and a grudge against Ms. Anh Chiem and excessive bullying versus Chiem family and their limited English skills.”
''She also admitted filing two letters of complaint against Rosen to the Law Society of Ontario.''
The first was in October 2019: “I am fearful of harm coming to myself and my family due to Mr. Rosen’s psychotic behaviour,” she wrote.''

 

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‘Did you kill Scott Rosen?’ Woman denies running down Toronto lawyer with rented U-Haul truck

Testifying for several hours, Anh Chiem gave confusing and rambling answers to her defence lawyer’s questions Friday.

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By Betsy PowellCourts Reporter
April 21, 2023
''Wiping tears from her eyes, Anh Chiem told a Superior Court jury on Friday she did not murder a Toronto civil litigation lawyer after years of being on opposing sides with him in acrimonious legal battles.

“Ms. Chiem, did you kill Scott Rosen?” asked defence lawyer Naomi Lutes.

“No, never,” an interpreter said, translating Chiem’s Vietnamese.

And Chiem also denied a witness’s testimony that he saw her driving a heavily damaged white U-Haul pickup truck along Bathurst Street soon after Rosen was run over in the parking garage of his law office on Eglinton Avenue East around 5:30 p.m. on Dec. 18, 2020.

Through translation, she denied meeting the witness. “I never met this man … There’s nothing to prove he had met me.”
The 64-year-old old has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder.''

 

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‘Did you kill Scott Rosen?’ Woman denies running down Toronto lawyer with rented U-Haul truck

Testifying for several hours, Anh Chiem gave confusing and rambling answers to her defence lawyer’s questions Friday.

www.thestar.com

By Betsy PowellCourts Reporter
April 21, 2023
''Wiping tears from her eyes, Anh Chiem told a Superior Court jury on Friday she did not murder a Toronto civil litigation lawyer after years of being on opposing sides with him in acrimonious legal battles.

“Ms. Chiem, did you kill Scott Rosen?” asked defence lawyer Naomi Lutes.

“No, never,” an interpreter said, translating Chiem’s Vietnamese.

And Chiem also denied a witness’s testimony that he saw her driving a heavily damaged white U-Haul pickup truck along Bathurst Street soon after Rosen was run over in the parking garage of his law office on Eglinton Avenue East around 5:30 p.m. on Dec. 18, 2020.

Through translation, she denied meeting the witness. “I never met this man … There’s nothing to prove he had met me.”
The 64-year-old old has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder.''

Pfffftt a mystery driver driving the van she just happened to have rented. If I was a juror I wouldn’t be buying it.

 

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Updated 10 hrs ago.
By Betsy Powell
Lengthy article rbbm

‘The most overwhelming case I have ever seen’: Woman guilty in ‘calculated’ murder of Toronto lawyer Scott Rosen

Anh Chiem had a “long-standing and undaunted resolve” to cause lawyer Scott Rosen harm, the Crown said.

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''So when an assailant poured phosphoric acid on his head as he descended the stairs to an underground parking lot near his midtown Toronto office on March 28, 2018, Rosen figured it was a random attack by someone who was mentally ill. This, despite the fact the culprit resembled Anh Chiem, whom he was suing on behalf of her former son-in-law.

“I suppose there is a small chance it’s her, we are in litigation and court proceedings. That’s the only person I can think of,” Rosen told the police officers investigating the acid attack.''

''Twenty-one months later, at 5:30 p.m. on Dec. 18, 2020, Chiem, fuelled with rage, ran over the civil litigator walking to his vehicle in a parking garage at his 234 Eglinton Ave. East law office. He suffered catastrophic injuries and died almost instantly. Prosecutors called it a “calculated and extremely violent act” that was captured by surveillance video.

It showed a U-Haul pickup driving directly at Rosen, dragging him along the cement wall, before bending like a piece of paper to the ground, the jury was told. After squealing the tires in reverse, the truck accelerated again before passing over his body.''


After the verdict, court officers guided the quietly sobbing defendant out of the courtroom. Rosen’s wife, Elise Middlestadt, grimaced looking at the woman who suggested during the trial that she had suffered more than Rosen. “

''Chiem’s language skills became an issue at trial.
Using a Vietnamese interpreter, Chiem suggested her English was such that she had no understanding of her legal predicament nor the effect of Rosen’s opposition to her bankruptcy discharge.
He allowed the prosecution to recall several witnesses to tell of interactions with Chiem that demonstrated her proficiency in English.''

''While raising her sons and daughter in Toronto, Chiem worked on and off as a waitress at a Chinese restaurant. Missing was the detail that in 1999 and 2001, she was convicted of operating body rub parlours without a licence, contrary to city bylaws. Chiem was fined $2,000 and given two years probation.''

''Two days before Christmas, with the city under lockdown, Emergency Task Force officers executed a search warrant at her son’s house where they found Chiem under a blanket on the floor beneath a bed.''

 

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MANDEL: Toronto lawyer's wife thankful his killer was convicted

After less than a day of deliberations, jury found the Toronto civil litigation lawyer had been run down by a woman he'd opposed in court.

torontosun.com

''His wife wants people to know Rosen was more than the victim of a deranged woman — he adored his two sons with all of his heart, loved to fish and play guitar and was smitten with their new dog Charlie. “He was a good guy,” she said simply.

Who was killed for doing his job too well.''

''Middlestadt attended every day of the long trial with all of its difficult evidence. But nothing could compare to coming upon the scene herself at 6:15 p.m. on Dec. 18, 2020.

She’d had surgery that week and Rosen promised to take their dog out for a walk. She called him just after 5 p.m. and he assured her that he was already packing up and getting in the elevator. But when Middlestadt got home, her husband still wasn’t there. She called and called, but he didn’t pick up.

Annoyed he’d probably been caught up with a client, she walked Charlie herself. When Rosen still wasn’t home, she started to worry. When she saw a news report about an incident at Mt. Pleasant and Eglinton, the site of his office, she feared he’d been in a car crash and rushed over.

“The garage door was open. He was already covered,” she recalled softly. “I saw him lying there and I saw his briefcase lying there. And then I knew. It was horrible.”

“For a smart woman in business, she did not know how to commit a murder and not get caught. And I’m very thankful.”
Sentencing is scheduled for May 24.''

 

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Woman who killed Toronto lawyer with truck sentenced to life in prison

Anh Chiem, who ran over Scott Rosen in a rented U-Haul pickup truck, receives the mandatory life sentence after a jury convicted her of first-degree murder two weeks ago.

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''Wednesday’s sentencing hearing was delayed for hours because the 64-year-old refused to leave Milton’s Vanier Centre for Women, leaving the victim’s family, friends and jurors — invited by the judge to return — waiting in the downtown courthouse. After declining a defence request to adjourn the proceedings, Justice Peter Bawden issued an “extraction order” authorizing correctional officers to use whatever “reasonable” force was necessary to bring her to court.''

''His mother, Frima Rosen, described her son as a “brilliant” lawyer who sought “justice for the little guy.” He loved the law, adored his family, and had so much to live for, she said tearfully. “Even though he was 52, he was still my baby.”


Ian Rosen called his brother an excellent athlete who loved to play guitar. “His (two) sons must now move forward with their lives without the guidance and mentorship of their father.” He thanked prosecutors Bev Richards and Corie Langdon for their “unwavering effort during this trial,” and praised Toronto homicide Det.-Sgt. Amanda Thornton and her team for “their fantastic work” and professionalism.''