After Baltovich, does the prosecutor still get to keep his job?
April 23, 2008 · By Charles Anthony
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.â€
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!
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.
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.
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/
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.
Back when Bain was murdered, investigators and those who knew Baltovich personally had no doubt he did it. Years pass, and evidence fades or is deemed inadmissable. I say keep an eye on Baltovich.
Well you are quite wrong about his friends thinking he was guilty. No evidence faded- why make that up?. And hypnosis evidence was the only evidence deemed inadmissable. And that was by the Supreme Court of Canada. Because its not even close to being reliable let alone factual. The only so-called evidence they had was the 2 quacks Marianne Perz and David Dibben. Both of them gave statements that had nothing to do with Baltovich. It wasnt until the cops started to manipulate them and hypnotised them that they they suddenly drastically changed their stories.Dibbens family was prepared to come to court and give evidence that he was coerced into lying by the police and the crimestoppers reward. They were manipulated into lying under oath and I strongly believe they werent going to lie this time but were lucky the higher court said no thank you. I say we keep an eye on you. Before expressing an opinion you might want to educate yourself on the case. Thanks my friend