Goleta Leaders Reflect on Collective Efforts to Keep City Resilient Amid COVID-19 Pandemic
In a screenshot, Mayor Paula Perotte delivers the Goleta State of the City Address on Friday. She said that the resiliency of the community played a strong role in COVID-19 recovery efforts. “After a year of turmoil, the state of the City of Goleta is stronger than ever,” she said. By Jade Martinez-Pogue, Noozhawk Staff Writer | @MartinezPogue
May 21, 2021
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As the transmission of the novel coronavirus slows across Santa Barbara ounty, Goleta officials spoke Friday about economic recovery and resiliency at the Santa Barbara South Coast Chamber of Commerce s Goleta State of the City Address.
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.
Posted: Feb 01, 2021 2:28 PM NT | Last Updated: February 3
Nicholas Villeneuve was acquitted of eight charges related to a two-vehicle crash that killed two people. (Garrett Barry/CBC)
A man acquitted of impaired driving walked out of a Gander courtroom a free man Monday but not before being confronted by a crowd of people who still believed he was responsible for a crash that killed two people.
Nicholas Villeneuve was acquitted Monday in provincial court of all eight charges he was facing. The decision came after the Crown attorney called no evidence in the trial against him.
Amanda Hiscock told Judge Mark Linehan that given the exclusion of several pieces of evidence, she had no reasonable chance of securing a conviction.
Evidence tossed ahead of drunk-driving trial for crash that killed Lewisporte couple
Nicholas Villeneuve, 22, is facing eight charges relating to a crash near Gander in 2019 that killed John Lush, 65, and Sandra Lush, 63, of Lewisporte. The couple s daughter and boyfriend were seriously injured in the incident.
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Posted: Jan 06, 2021 11:01 AM NT | Last Updated: January 6
Nicholas Villeneuve is facing eight charges linked to a two-vehicle crash near Gander in 2019.(Garrett Barry/CBC)
A provincial court judge has ordered the exclusion of several pieces of evidence from a drunk-driving case that killed a Lewisporte couple in 2019.
Judge Mark Linehan, a provincial court judge in Gander, ruled Tuesday that some physical evidence, as well as some notes made by police on the night of a crash, could not be used by the Crown in making its case at trial.