Criminal DEFENCE Blog

The Crown will conduct a closed-door hearing with a judge to see if it has to disclose new evidence to the defence on a Calgary murder case.Justice Suzanne Bensler yesterday...

Seeing a knife attack in a busy Boxing Week Chinook Centre parking lot landed a mother and daughter in the middle of a pepper-spray assault, court heard yesterday. [the witness] testified...

Woman thought young men just ‘fooling around’When [the witness] saw several young men run in front of her van in Chinook Centre’s southeast parking lot, spraying what she thought was...

Growing poppy plants in his backyard has landed a Calgary man a one-year conditional sentence.   [the accused] pleaded guilty yesterday to a single charge of cultivation of opium poppies for...

The identity of a man who viciously stabbed another man in a Chinook Centre parking lot 18 months ago was again clouded when a witness to the attack took the...

Following a day in which defence lawyers poked holes in its medical expert’s evidence, the Crown won’t proceed with the most serious charge against two motorcyclists involved in a fatal...

Victim’s mother infuriated

The friend of a man savagely pepper-sprayed and knifed in the Chinook Centre parking lot told court yesterday how he fled as the assault began. [the friend] said he was walking...

IN COURT - Stabbing victim was able to identify his attackers outside Chinook Centre before his vision was drastically reduced by pepper spray they sprayed into his face, Crown prosecutor...

The victim of a vicious stabbing outside Chinook Centre 18 months ago became emotional and upset when he picked his attacker out of a photo lineup the following day, a...