 Alberta family stunned as sex-assault case dismissed because of trial delaysLaw & Order | 206851 hits | Nov 02 11:28 am | Posted by: DrCaleb  Alberta’s top prosecutor has launched an investigation after a judge dismissed a sexual assault case – one dating back to where the victim was just nine years old – because it took too long to go to trial.
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The case was stayed Oct. 3, effectively killing it. The accused man, who can?t be identified due to a publication ban, cannot be charged again and is now free.
Notice that while Mr. Lepp uses alot of words, he says absolutely nothing of substance.
He's playing "save ass" now.
too right, just wondering if it will ever change.
too right, just wondering if it will ever change.
We have a legal system not a justice system.
It's a pity the powers that be don't to realize the damage these absolute failures to the confidence in Joe Canuck in his legal system and his government.
Remind me again why it's wrong to shoot child molesters?
hmmm, it's just not coming to me atm.
Remind me again why it's wrong to shoot child molesters?
Well I won't say either way outside of the fact that we'd have to look at all those suffering a mental illness that causes hurt for others in the same vein.
Frankly, the justice side of me would rather see them locked up in a tiny cell where they can't ever hope to gratify those terrible desires until they reach a point where they've had enough and asked to be euthanized.
It's hard to justify keeping them on or in fact any serial killer as well - like Bernardo. If they cannot be rehabilitated I've often wondered what the point was if keeping them alive since one would think that decades in solitary with zero hope is a fate worse than death and certainly less humane.
Remind me again why it's wrong to shoot child molesters?
Good enough for you to start blasting away, huh?
Remind me again why it's wrong to shoot child molesters?
Good enough for you to start blasting away, huh?
Well it appears to be good enough to at least load the shotgun, no?
Greg Lepp, associate deputy minister of justice, said there were delays in the case when bad weather and illness prevented witnesses from attending court. He said new evidence also came forward that caused delays in the process.
"The charges are finished and there is no way of breathing life back into them," Lepp said Friday.
"The prosecutor who was responsible for this case did not disagree with the defence that it had taken too long. And in the final result, the Crown did not oppose the application to have the charges terminated because that is what the law provided."
Under the Charter of Rights an accused has the right to a trial within a reasonable amount of time.
Lepp said the delays shouldn't have happened, the alleged victim has a right to be frustrated and the government is conducting a review in the hope that it doesn't happen again.
The case involves a woman, who is now 27, who says she was sexually assaulted by a person in a position of trust from age nine until she was 17.
Not in the country I want to live in, no.
Just for that post I would love to see them bring back capital punishment.
Good enough for you to start blasting away, huh?
No, but good enough for me to contemplate one well-placed shot.
Not in the country I want to live in, no.
well good, then the pedos can go live with you when they get out.
That's all the "alleged victim" has now, is the right to be frustrated, because the incompetence of the Albertan court system has denied her anything else.
Keep on playing "save ass" Mr. Lepp.