Accused bridge blockader avoids Windsor criminal trial with donation to cats
The direct accountability program, introduced as part of Ontario’s Justice on Target Strategy to reduce court backlogs, provides an alternative to formal prosecution for adults charged with eligible criminal offences considered minor.
“The Crown requests the charges before the court be withdrawn,” Skelton asked the judge, who then obliged. Honner, a Toronto lawyer and litigation director at The Democracy Fund, said the defence’s argument at trial would have been that, while Lockstein was out protesting that day, he was standing on the Huron Church Road median at the time of his arrest and not on the roadway.
The Democracy Fund, a civil liberties charity involved in criminal cases where Canadian Constitution issues might be at stake, is representing 13 of those arrested and charged in Windsor. Most of those arrested locally face the same charges as Lockstein, and those cases are only now beginning to reach court.Article content
When it comes to going to trial and fighting it out in court, said Honner, “there’s always a risk for people facing criminal charges. If the opportunity arises to pay a small fine to have those removed, they take it.”
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