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Betsy Powell

Betsy Powell

Courts Reporter at Toronto Star Online

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  • English
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  • Law
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‘Rules get broken’: What we learned in Week 1 of a $300-million Toronto construction fraud trial

One key line of defence can be summed up, the judge explained, as “everybody knows” that the rules get broken in major Ontario procurement processes.
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Trial opens in $300-million St. Mike’s hospital fraud case

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
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Judge rejects motion to remove prosecutor and toss sex assault char...

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
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‘Stark horror’: Toronto man who lit his ex-wife on fire gets life s...

Norbert Budai doused Henrietta Viski with gasoline and set ablaze in front of their two adult children.
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‘Staged to look like a theft’: Long-suspended Toronto cop pleads gu...

Toronto police officer Const. Ronald Joseph has been suspended with pay since his initial 2020 arrest.
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Witness felt ‘groomed’ at cottage with Coun. Thompson

A witness compared a friend of Thompson to Ghislaine Maxwell — the notorious enabler of sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein.
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Teen admits to shooting 73-year-old Toronto taxi driver seven times...

“The main question” for the jury is what did the teen intend to do when he repeatedly shot Christopher Jung, the prosecutor said.
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‘Shocking immorality’: Toronto cop who stole Swiss watch and credit...

"In our community, it should never occur to a person in distress that they had better lock up their valuables before calling 911."
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Murder case collapses against Toronto rapper Top 5 after judge toss...

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.
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Toronto judge makes rare move of halting extradition of Ontario man...

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.
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Jacob Hoggard is denied bail ahead of Supreme Court appeal

The court may reconsider bail for the ex-Hedley frontman in the event the Supreme Court takes up his case, the Court of Appeal said Friday.
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I was drunk and high when I set my estranged wife on fire with gaso...

Norbert Budai testified Wednesday he meant to set his estranged wife’s hair ablaze, but didn’t mean to kill her.
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Toronto man admits to lighting estranged wife on fire with gasoline...

Henrietta Viski was fatally set ablaze outside her home June 17, 2022 — one day after her estranged husband made threats to do exactly that.
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‘You just ran over a cop’: The inside story of the failed prosecuti...

Within hours of Const. Northrup’s death, the case against Umar Zameer was already being regarded with skepticism by some inside Toronto police.
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Toronto judge gets rebuke for ‘mocking,’ ‘inflammatory’ and ‘inappr...

The Court of Appeal overturned Justice R. Lee Akazaki’s decision, citing his “mocking and inflammatory” tone and “entirely inappropriate” reasoning.
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Toronto cop who stole Swiss watch and credit cards is denied bail a...

Const. Boris Borissov is being held in solitary confinement, due to his status as a police officer.
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Toronto cop who stole Swiss watch and credit cards from dead people...

Const. Boris Borissov was arrested Saturday while he was waiting to board an outbound plane at Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport.
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‘This was intentional’: Judge tosses fentanyl case over ‘misleading...

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.
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Loaded gun case tossed after Toronto judge finds racial profiling i...

Loaded gun case tossed after Toronto judge finds racial profiling in arrest, charges against Black man
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‘So painful to read’: Court transcript reveals ‘disturbing’ skeptic...

“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.”
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Did Toronto police ‘bury’ tape of this girl’s real killer?

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