For the jury to deliberate for only two hours and come back with a unanimous acquittal in this case is a serious error in judgment," [Beverley Jacobs] said in a prepared statement. "It doesn't matter what the accused assumed the girl's age was at the time of the assault, the fact remains she was only 12 years old-too young to give adults consent. With this ruling, the victim has been re-victimized and justice was not served. [Dean Edmonson], [Jeffrey Kindrat] and [Jeffrey Brown]'s co-accused, was tried separately in May 2003. He was found guilty and given a conditional sentence of two-years-less-a-day, to be served in the community. Both Edmonson and the Crown appealed the sentence but the appeals were dismissed by the court, although the Appeal Court judgments indicated that the tria...
Several other newsletters were seized by police, which included categories such as "Freedom" (who's getting out of jail), "Movements" (who's going to jail) and "New Commitments" (members). Police also seized more than 100 pages of membership lists for Canadian chapters across Canada. They included cell phone and pager numbers for named members and associates. Some simply were referred to by nicknames such as "Shaky Dave", "Dirtbag" and "Psycho. He spoke of a $300,000 "franchise fee" for new members. A five-year period of going from "friend" to "member."
Grant is a notorious convicted sex offender who has spent much of his adult life in prison, although jurors had no idea about his previous criminal record because he never testified in his own defence and the Crown wasn't allowed to present evidence of bad character. The family was not at all disappointed jurors found Grant not guilty of the original charge of first-degree murder, which carries a mandatory life sentence with no chance of parole for 25 years.
The sad irony is that while First Nations are represented before the courts and in jails, they are terribly underrepresented when it comes to participating in the justice system, and the result is a very significant population wide human rights violation," [Julian Falconer] expressed, adding that the right to a trial by a jury of one's peers is a constitutional right. "This is clearly being denied to First Nations. "I think it just conforms everything we've been saying all along," said Alvin Fiddler, deputy Grand Chief of the NAN. "I've said that before, that the justice system is failing our communities, it's failing our people. We see this by the representation of our people in the corrections system, the jails, and the court system. And now, with the exclusion of the jury role, it ...
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