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.
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The expression “getting off on a technicality” has perhaps never, in recent memory, held as much pain and frustration as in the case of a fatal crash that took place on the Trans-Canada Highway outside Gander, Newfoundland on July 7, 2019.
This week, the driver accused of causing that crash walked out of a court room a free man.
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Josh Whiteway was with his girlfriend in the back seat of her parents’ SUV as the older couple was driving the four of them to the airport in the early morning; it was around 4:00am when their sport-utility was involved in a head-on crash with a pickup, according to a CBC report.
It was a day of outrage Monday for the family of a couple who were killed in a car accident near Gander in July of 2019, leaving two others seriously hurt including a man who was left a paraplegic. The person charged with being drunk and causing that accident walked out of court a free […]
Posted: Feb 02, 2021 12:41 PM NT | Last Updated: February 2
Patricia Hynes-Coates has been outspoken about impaired driving for years. She says a recent acquittal in a trial over a crash that killed two people is devastating.(CBC)
In 2019 John and Sandra Lush were killed in a highway accident, their daughter seriously injured, and a fourth person in the car left paralyzed from the waist down.
Nicholas Villeneuve, then 22, was accused of impaired driving causing death, but was acquitted Monday morning on all eight charges after the Crown s key evidence was thrown out.
The judge in the case decided that Villeneuve s charter rights were violated.
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.