An Ontario courtroom’s order to retry a “Freedom Convoy” protester may have implications for the continuing trial of the protest’s two key organizers.
The Superior Court docket of Justice ordered a retrial final week for Allen Remley, a convoy participant who had been acquitted on a mischief cost.
Remley was acquitted final 12 months by Justice Heather Perkins-McVey, who can be presiding over the felony trial for organizers Tamara Lich and Chris Barber.
The courtroom ordered a retrial after concluding Perkins-McVey didn’t adequately take the context of the protest under consideration.
College of Ottawa criminologist Michael Kempa says which means the choose should apply a broader normal when the time involves rule on Lich and Barber.
In Remley’s case, Perkins-McVey discovered the Crown had did not adequately show that he was engaged in mischief throughout the protest.
