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Betsy Powell

Betsy Powell

Courts Reporter at Toronto Star Online

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Languages
  • English
Covering topics
  • Law
  • Crime

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Recent Articles

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Judge rejects motion to remove prosecutor and toss sex assault charge against Toronto Coun. Micha...

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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‘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.