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Betsy Powell

Betsy Powell

Courts Reporter at Toronto Star Online

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  • English
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  • Law
  • Crime

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Frank Stronach trial: Judge ends cross-examination after sex assault complainant ‘just threatened...

“This is a spectacle that I’m not comfortable being a part of,” the judge said during an unruly day of testimony.
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A bitter fight over Toronto’s dirt: Why this cottage country airpor...

Dirt is a booming business at the Edenvale Aerodrome. It arrives in truckloads by the hundreds.
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The boys of ‘EMPz 4 Life’: How life, death and murder haunt the ‘he...

Is there a way out? That was the question “EMPz 4 Life” asked as it followed Brian Henry’s efforts to help a group of troubled Toronto boys.
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How this fake Norval Morrisseau led to the collapse of Canada’s mos...

“Spirit Energy of Mother Earth” — the fake that brought down a forgery ring profiting off the legacy of a towering figure of Indigenous art.
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‘Sheer savagery’: Toronto pair get life sentences for drive-by murd...

Jordan Mendez and Leighton Hopkinson “(shot) strangers whose only crime was sitting in a car on a summer evening,” a judge said.
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A CAS worker saw a 12-year-old boy three months before his alleged ...

For the first time since it began, trial of Becky Hamber and Brandy Cooney heard Friday from a representative of the Children's Aid Society.
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Judge slashes lawyers’ $510M contingency fee for $10B First Nations...

“A lawyer’s professional retainer is not a lottery ticket offering a bonus prize of generational wealth to the lawyers if the clients hit the jackpot and win a mega-award.”
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‘This boy is a ticking time bomb’: Ontario doctor acknowledges maln...

Dr. Stephen Duncan saw the severely malnourished boy eight days before his sudden death, but did not recommend the child go to hospital.
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‘He chose to drive’: Student who killed York cop guilty of dangerou...

“He chose to drive when he knew or ought to have known he was tired,” Superior Court Justice Mark Edwards said.
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‘It is imperative that what the police did here be condemned’: Peel...

A Brampton judge has excluded a gun from evidence after finding police officers participated in a shakedown of the accused, then lied about it in court.
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Judge lists 10 reasons Toronto rapper Da Crook is not guilty of $6....

Rapper Christian Collins was accused of participating in a robbery that made off with 150 watches — mainly Rolexes — valued at $6.5 million from a luxury watch dealer on