shockedcanadian
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When you don't believe in G-d, don't believe in integrity or honour but you and your family exploit the system, you do whatever you'd like.
His life were stolen. There won't be any consequences for the police. They can take a stick to you, render you deaf, or withhold evidence to keep an innocent man locked up. It's all fair game in an unaccountable covert police state.
www.thestar.com
Ontario’s top court has quashed the conviction of Timothy Rees, formerly sentenced to life in prison for the murder of 10-year-old Darla Thurott, in light of an “incriminating” recording that was alleged to have been buried by police for years.
A new trial has been ordered for Timothy Rees, 62, after Ontario’s court of appeal found that his 1990 conviction of second-degree murder constituted a miscarriage of justice.
“Since 1989, I’ve been labelled a killer, and I’m not,” Rees told reporters in the office of his lawyer, James Lockyer, shortly after the ruling was released. “I’m happy it’s been recognized that I’m no longer labelled that way.”
Whether a new trial will happen was not immediately clear. It’s up to Crown prosecutors to decide if they will pursue a retrial against Rees.
Lockyer, however, doesn’t expect that will be the case.
“I think it’s fair to say in this case, the likelihood of the Crown proceeding with a new trial is essentially non-existent,” he said. “They would be calling police officers whose credibility would be, to put it politely, suspect. So that’s not going to happen.”
His life were stolen. There won't be any consequences for the police. They can take a stick to you, render you deaf, or withhold evidence to keep an innocent man locked up. It's all fair game in an unaccountable covert police state.
‘I’ve been labelled a killer, and I’m not’: Court tosses Toronto man’s conviction in the 1989 murder of Darla Thurrott, 10
A new trial has been ordered for Timothy Rees, 62, after Ontario's top court found that his 1990 conviction of second-degree murder constituted a miscarriage of justice.
www.thestar.com
Ontario’s top court has quashed the conviction of Timothy Rees, formerly sentenced to life in prison for the murder of 10-year-old Darla Thurott, in light of an “incriminating” recording that was alleged to have been buried by police for years.
A new trial has been ordered for Timothy Rees, 62, after Ontario’s court of appeal found that his 1990 conviction of second-degree murder constituted a miscarriage of justice.
“Since 1989, I’ve been labelled a killer, and I’m not,” Rees told reporters in the office of his lawyer, James Lockyer, shortly after the ruling was released. “I’m happy it’s been recognized that I’m no longer labelled that way.”
Whether a new trial will happen was not immediately clear. It’s up to Crown prosecutors to decide if they will pursue a retrial against Rees.
Lockyer, however, doesn’t expect that will be the case.
“I think it’s fair to say in this case, the likelihood of the Crown proceeding with a new trial is essentially non-existent,” he said. “They would be calling police officers whose credibility would be, to put it politely, suspect. So that’s not going to happen.”
