Eight Ottawa residents will be allowed to testify at the criminal trial of two "Freedom Convoy" organizers.
OTTAWA — Eight Ottawa residents will be allowed to testify at the criminal trial of two “Freedom Convoy” organizers, the presiding judge ruled Wednesday.Tamara Lich and Chris Barber are facing charges related to their roles in organizing the protest that brought thousands of big-rig trucks to Ottawalast year, where demonstrators remained for three weeks.Lich’s lawyer Lawrence Greenspon asked the judge not to let the locals testify, arguing their testimony would be irrelevant.
To bar the locals from taking the stand would “unfairly or irreparably cause damage” to the Crown’s discretion to call evidence as it sees fit, Perkins-McVey told the court in her decision Wednesday.Thanks for signing up!The next issue of Calgary Sun Headline News will soon be in your inbox.The Crown plans to call five Ottawa residents as witnesses in the case to describe what they saw and experienced during the convoy.
Perkins-McVey said she would make sure the testimony heard by the court is relevant to the charges faced by Lich and Barber, rather than what amount to victim-impact statements about how the protest affected witnesses personally. The first 13 days of the trial took place in September. It resumed Wednesday after a two-and-a-half week break.On Wednesday afternoon, the court returned to the testimony of the first witness in the trial: Const. Craig Barlow, with the Ottawa police cybercrimes unit.
Barber’s lawyer, Diane Magas, showed the court videos that weren’t included in the compilation, including a video of a woman who appeared to be knocked over by a police horse during the major police operation to remove protesters from downtown Ottawa.
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