I am stinking mad. This is a horrifying waste and I have to chalk one up for the NDP too. Here is what their justice critic Peter Kormos said:
“It’s objectionable and deplorable that this government would not want to know why an innocent person could be convicted in the first place, would not want to know why it would take so long for that person to be cleared by a process in which the Crown tenders no evidence whatsoever.”
Kormos is right.
What the hell is going on? We should not employ prosecutors to take non-cases to court. Less than a month ago, they went into jury selection. This did not have to go to court. Tax-payer’s money did not have to be spent to have a prosecutor go to court just to say they have no evidence. I think the judge should have penalized the prosecution for wasting everybody’s time and money. It really is insulting. Maybe the take-home message is that the prosecution is not to be trusted.
Does John Baltovich deserve compensation? Yes but remember: any sort of public compensation just makes the tax-payer pay — again. This is an abuse of public office. Somebody should lose a job over this.
I wish I could spend my employer’s time telling him that at the end of the day, there is no work for me to do and still collect a pay cheque!
Paulm wrote:
I think there is a lot more to this case than meets the eye. Many years ago, when this actually happened, an acquaintance of mine was one of the officers who executed the search warrant. So I know a few things about some items found in the house which were excluded from court as predjudicial.
I can say, that even these years later, I agree with Bain’s mom. I suspect the prosecutor really wanted to take this back to trial, but was hung out to dry by his/her bosses.
Posted on 23-Apr-08 at 1:38 pm | Permalink
Pissedoff wrote:
Seems like this is just another typical Canadian criminal case. Just look at the botched investigation into the Bernado murders and the deal struck with Karla Homolka because they didnt find those tapes.Even now thanks to a judge she is free and clear.
Posted on 23-Apr-08 at 9:15 pm | Permalink
James Goneaux wrote:
It seems NOTHING was learned from the Guy Paul Morin commission. Nothing. It is a waste of time, energy and paper to even produce these things, as all it does is expose the idiocy for a few news cycles, then it get shelved, and innocent people are railroaded.
And innocent families are left to wonder if their loved one’s killer is still on the street…
http://www.attorneygeneral.jus.....ubs/morin/
Posted on 24-Apr-08 at 7:22 am | Permalink
whatthehell wrote:
this is for paulm (if he decides to come back)
lets hear about these so called items or evidence.
ive read the full transcripts and cant come up with what you might be talking about.
are you just making things up out of boredom?? id like to hear what your opinion is.
Posted on 26-Apr-08 at 4:31 pm | Permalink