OTTAWA - Canada's highest court has refused to hear an appeal of a British Columbia Supreme Court decision that acquitted a demonstrator of criminal contempt for taking part in a blockade of old-growth logging on Vancouver Island.
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The protester was cleared of contempt when the B.C. Supreme Court found RCMP officers only read a shortened version of an injunction to hundreds of protesters