Generally speaking, a witness is called in a trial when they actually saw a defendant committing a particular crime. If Tamara Lich and Chris Barber had painted graffiti on a water tower, what’s going on in an Ottawa courtroom right now is more like a parade of testimony from people who saw the graffiti and were upset by it but did not see who actually painted it.
One would expect that if a charge of mischief was going to stick, the trial should have been over and done with by now. Who knew that “overwhelming” someone is now a crime…
Vivian Leir, an employee at St. Andrew’s Presybyterian Church near the intersection of Wellington and Kent streets, told court she was “overwhelmed with trucks parked all around our church”
She testified demonstrators urinated and defecated on church property, dressed up a statue of Jesus and left “garbage everywhere.”
During her cross-examination, defence lawyers clarified she never saw anyone defecating on the property herself, but that the church’s groundskeeper told her about locating human feces. They also showed video recorded during the convoy showing the street adjacent to the church being relatively quiet, with hardly any horns heard in the background.
I noticed that as well. The prospecution’s case seems to be that some local residents were upset by the demonstration.
50+ days in Prison already before trial.
This is how this FILTHY Government treats our Heroes.
This is what FILTHY Marxism is.
Jan 6ers, and our Truckers are being drawn and quartered so we don’t get any ideas. Keep your head down and OBEY!
It’s Too late, we have a long list….There will be no more Protests.
Subjects Protest, Citizens Vote, and use other means to rid themselves of Tyrants.
God have mercy on FILTHY LIBERALS.
WE WILL NOT.
tough sh@t
26% Ottawans work for the feds and they and the rest have never ventured far.
Scar, below, absolutely! The appeals will go on for decades, paid for by fed lawyers.
Another convoy? It is needed!
The disturbing thing is the judge is allowing irrelevant hearsay evidence. Large amounts of irrelevant hearsay evidence. How does this bode for a verdict?
Oh I think we all know where this Stalin like show trial is heading? When I studied Criminology we were told hearsay evidence is not evidence, so why did the crown allow said hearsay?
In civil cases how one felt is material, via awarding damages is the Crown attempting to rig the civil lawsuits? How they felt is immaterial under criminal law. Frankly the entire thing is sickening, how they feel is nothing more than hearsay not evidence.
This is a kangaroo court. If the rules of evidence are violated by the judge, then the outcome is false.
BRUUUUUUH !! You did not provide a “CBC link” warning.
Ottawa is a disgusting place. The convoy improved it, if only for a short time.
Ontario is well known for their corrupt courts.
Just ask Restore CSA.
Under our Liberanos does anyone expect a fair trial?
When the charges are political?
What crime did any protesters break?
Compare and contrast with the masked and unbadged “police”…
Retroactive laws are against the Magna Carta,but our little Emperor and his crusading children,seem to figure that those rules are for thee,not for the royal we..
Ex post facto?
If they had only been FN protesters……..Oh wait!!!!!!!!!
Maybe time to send a little more $$$$$$ to help them get through this SHIT show.
The “prosecution” should spend it’s time charging the Pro-Hamas Nazis for hate speech and calls of violence.
Corrupt failed lawyer judge. Corrupt Lieberal party prosecutor. Corrupt syphilis servants. Welcome to the Lieberal Democratic Peoples Republic of Kanada.
This is a Stalinist show trial. Canada is a third world gangster sh**hole now.
Too bad. It used to be a truly wonderful place. Oh well, nothing on earth lasts forever.
Can I go and testify about how the Freedom convoy made me feel?
How it made me feel proud to see the sacrifice and commitment to freedom and how seeing tens of thousands of Canadians standing up for human rights gave me hope for the future?
Do my voice and emotions count?
I was proud and frankly astounded, that a sector of entrepreneurial people, with REAL skin in the game, would stick their neck out so far. It was truly heroic and very brave.
They could easily have lost everything.
They stood for all of us.
Re the alleged poopage on the lawn, where’s the evidence? Pictures? maybe it was dog poop?
In any case, weren’t the homeless individuals roaming around a news item during the protest? Seems to me the Convoy organizers were reported to be feeding them, or am I misremembering? The homeless crapping in public places has certainly been a problem in Vancouver.
Getting it confused with a BLM protest, maybe.
“As reliable as an eye witness.” Ukrainian (or Russian) proverb.
“All that honking”, eh? The truckers themselves had to sleep sometime. The idea that there was furious honking, 24-7, for weeks at a time, is illogical nonsense.
The “tell” of this piece of State propaganda,put out by CBC.
No comments.
Every time CBC is knowingly lying,they forbid comment.
Around ⅔ of churches in Canada are apostate.
Seek out a real church. Our pastor told provincial authorities to put him in prison before he’d turn anyone away who wasn’t masked or vaccinated.
Any church that closed it’s doors at the government order surrounding the “covid” fraud is apostate.
If you want to pay $6 a liter or $20 a gallon for gas then keep on supporting the yahoodi sharmutas.
If you want to have heat and fuel at a price you can pay then evacuate all the European invaders from all of Palestine from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean.
It’s a show trial.
If the judge or judges had any sense of justice, they would stop it.
The so called “Liberal” government is corrupting the sense of justice.
It is just too bad that the bottom feeders are playing this shit.
“Have you now, or ever pondered inconveniencing your economic and social betters in Ottawa?”
Lich and Barber will get the book thrown at them. An example of what happens when you dare act out against the feds. I have watched as the small amount of actual coverage in the MSM, never allows comments, wonder why that is? What of the Coutts four, 700 days or so and still awaiting charges in a jail.