6 Toronto police officers charged in corruption probe were supposed to appear in court. Why didn’t they?

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Americans are seeing first hand how the old Soviet system operates. Bring your kids to the monitor and have them read the articles, it is like going back in time to a place where centralized, unaccountable police states were free to persecute citizens.

I just want my family case to end and if I have the resources protected by law, I can get out of here. If this nation wants to allow these criminals to prosper, that is no longer my problem. From the TPS on up, Canada has a real police state issue. When you have Canadians online asking for the U.S to help fix these criminal apparatuses here, you know that we are the East Germans in the classic East vs West division.

They are allowed a "special designation", because hiring to murder citizens and dealing poisons when one is a corrupt cop is cool in Canada, just do not dare investigate the polticiiasn and you are ok!

Ontario is rapidly collapsing.

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Six Toronto police officers arrested and charged in a sweeping corruption probe by York Regional Police last month were scheduled to appear in court Tuesday — most for the first time — except the courtroom was largely empty, save for their lawyers and the Crown prosecutors.

Their absences aren’t actually against the law. But because this is a high-profile case and none of the officers scheduled to appear Tuesday are in custody, questions persist about when they’ll finally make a public appearance.

Here’s what you need to know:

Six Toronto police officers, one of whom is retired, and seven civilians had court appearances scheduled for Tuesday.

The officers scheduled to appear were:

  • John Madeley Sr., 55, retired officer.
  • Const. John Madeley Jr., 29, son of John Madeley Sr.
  • Sgt. Robert Black, 42.
  • Sgt. Carl Grellette, 49.
  • Sgt. Saurabjit Bedi, 38.
  • Const. Elias Mouawad, 24.
The officers’ charges range from conspiracy to obstruct justice to drug trafficking.

None of the officers were in court Tuesday because they got their lawyers to file a designation of council for them.

That designation means they can skip out on a chunk of their court proceedings and have their lawyer — or sometimes another appointed counsel under them, like a paralegal — show up for them instead, as outlined in the Criminal Code. Anyone accused of a crime can file for a designation, according to the code.
 

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