The Crown alleges former Bondfield Construction Ltd. CEO John Aquino and St. Michael's Hospital executive Vas Georgiou hid their relationship to help secure a largely public funded $300-million contract. Bondfield
The prosecutor made a mistake by sharing photo evidence with a complainant ahead of her testimony, but it amounted to a “heads up” — not conduct worthy of dismissal, the
A murder trial for one of Toronto’s best-known underground rappers has collapsed before trial after the judge excluded key evidence from his social media accounts.
Superior Court Justice Paul Schabas found the Charter rights of the man, wanted in the U.S. to stand trial for child luring, were violated in “an abuse of process” by police and prosecutors.
The judge excluded half a kilo of cocaine and five ounces of fentanyl from the case, finding Toronto police had no reasonable grounds to make an arrest.
“The judge’s statements show a profound lack of understanding that even what might be viewed as a ‘minor’ sexual assault can have catastrophic, long-term psychological impact.”
Timothy Rees, 61, spent 19 years in prison for the 1989 murder of 10-year-old Darla Thurrott. It was only later, with the help of the Innocence Project, that he learned