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Rape charge stayed amid questions
Submitted by Stinger503 on Wed, 2010-08-25 04:14
Article here. Excerpt:
'A strange turn of events saw the Crown stay a sexual assault charge following four days of trial and after the accused man had waited 26 months in custody for a judge and jury to hear his case.
James Ferris, 36, walked out of Superior Court a free man yesterday when the prosecutor told Justice Kim Carpenter-Gunn the Crown had re-evaluated its case in light of new developments and no longer believed there was a reasonable prospect of obtaining a conviction.
The rape trial went off the rails earlier yesterday when Ferris's lawyer, Peter Boushy, told the judge what he'd learned from a colleague in the legal community about the 27-year-old female complainant.'
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Why was the defendant not bailed?
Here we have an innocent man who has had 26 months taken from him. Why? he should have been released on bail until the trial, instead he has been punished unjustly for a crime that never took place.