Judge stops 1000 charges against Catania
A judge has stopped nearly a thousand charges against Paolo Catania and other people involved in the old Construction Frank Catania firm. The basis was the Jordan ruling against undue delay in going to trial.
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Kate
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walkerp 22:11 on 2019-08-02 Permalink
An absolute travesty. You can’t tell where the incompetence ends and the corruption begins.
Kate 10:14 on 2019-08-03 Permalink
Le Devoir has a good piece Saturday on how this situation arose: crown prosecutors obstructed the defense until the rule against delays applied.
dwgs 08:45 on 2019-08-04 Permalink
You think maybe there were people in positions of power who didn’t want a full and frank airing of the details in some of those cases?
Kate 09:09 on 2019-08-04 Permalink
I don’t know, dwgs. There have been ridiculous delays getting some of these Charbonneau commission-related cases to trial, but then any trial involving nearly a thousand charges has to be a paperwork nightmare and a monster to prosecute. Can’t imagine what it feels like for a Crown prosecutor who’s spent a couple of years familiarizing themselves with the details of a case like this only to be told it’s off.
dwgs 10:22 on 2019-08-04 Permalink
Yeah, I’m not saying for sure there was but you have to think that with enough will things would have been prioritized and pushed through.