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Constable Kelsey Muise told a St. John’s, N.L., courtroom Wednesday that in January 2015, a woman in the back of her patrol car said she had been assaulted by a police officer.
Muise said she pulled the car over, flicked on the overhead light and turned around in her seat to face the woman.
“She was visibly upset,” Muise told the trial, adding that the woman was drunk and grew more distraught the longer she was in the vehicle. She said she put the woman’s allegation “through the chain of command” at the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary “because of the nature of the complaint.”
Crown will appeal acquittal of alleged drunk driver
Crown attorneys in Newfoundland and Labrador will appeal court decisions that led to the acquittal of a man accused of drunk driving causing death.
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Posted: Feb 10, 2021 4:13 PM NT | Last Updated: February 10
Nicholas Villeneuve leaves a courtroom in Gander s provincial court after being acquitted earlier this month. (Garrett Barry/CBC)
Crown attorneys will appeal the court decisions that led to the acquittal of an accused drunk driver in central Newfoundland.
Lloyd Strickland, Newfoundland and Labrador s director of public prosecutions, said in a media release Wednesday that Crown lawyers had identified legal errors in pre-trial decisions that constrained the prosecution s case against Nicholas Villeneuve.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. Image via The Conversation.
Many earlier thinkers had asked why our universe is the way it is, but Leibniz went a step further, wondering why there is a universe at all. The question is a challenging one because it seems perfectly possible that there might have been nothing whatsoever – no Earth, no stars, no galaxies, no universe. Leibniz even thought that nothing would have been “simpler and easier.” If nothing whatsoever had existed then no explanation would have been needed, not that there would have been anyone around to ask for an explanation, of course, but that’s a different matter.
No political interference in investigations, say justice officials and top cop
Top provincial justice officials and the chief of the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary deny allegations that there has been government interference in police investigations.
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RNC Chief Joe Boland answered questions from reporters at police headquarters in St. John s on Wednesday morning.(CBC)
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The province’s Director of Public Prosecutions is publicly setting the record straight following allegations of political interference in the laying of charges against an RNC officer.
Lloyd Strickland calls the accusation “an afront to the integrity of public prosecutions and the Crown attorneys that serve the public.”
RNC Constable Joe Smyth has made a formal complaint to the RCMP alleging former Justice Minister Andrew Parsons played a role in Smyth being charged with obstruction of justice involving a traffic offence.
Strickland flatly denies any political interference in the Smyth prosecution or any others.
He says the suggestion that Crown lawyers would accept any direction or pressure from anyone in government is troubling.