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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.
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.