Summary
It is what it is because two judges delivered opposite and irreconcilable decisions over the submission of that same evidence -- the videotaped statements that witnesses gave to police. In Mr. [Jeff Cansanay]'s trial this spring, Mr. Justice Morris Kaufman refused to allow the videotaped statements of two of the witnesses, rival gang members who refused to testify in court. This month, in the trial against a co-accused (who remains unnamed unless he is sentenced as an adult) Mr. Justice Albert Clearwater decided to allow the statements, and that of a third witness, as evidence. Mr. Kaufman directed an acquittal against Mr. Cansanay following his decision; the jury in the recent trial found the accused guilty of second-degree murder and attempted murder. In the videotapes, two of the rivals said Mr. Cansanay shot at them as the co-accused egged him on.
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Editorial - the Verdict Remains Out
THE last of the accused charged in the killing of Philip Haiart, an innocent victim caught in a street gang turf war, is bound for jail. That ma...
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