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Criminal lawyer questions police error in murder trials
Fredericton police errors compromised key evidence in two murder trials, prompting an independent review to restore public trust and ensure justice system reliability.
- Murder trials related to Corey Christopher Markey and Brandon Donelan recently collapsed in New Brunswick due to a police error.
- The police acknowledged a mistake that compromised key Crown evidence, leading a Crown prosecutor to seek a halt in the legal process that resulted in the termination of the trials.
- Five people were charged in the cases, with the Fredericton police and RCMP leading separate murder investigations impacted by the error.
- Criminal lawyer Nathan Gorham acknowledged that while the justice system is not perfect, the frequency of its errors remains unclear.
- The municipal police force launched a separate investigation overseen by Ian D. Scott, a lawyer from Ontario and former head of the province’s police oversight agency, aiming to rebuild public confidence and avoid similar mistakes in the future.
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Criminal lawyer questions police error in murder trials
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Criminal lawyer questions police error in murder trials – 105.9 The Region
FREDERICTON — The recent collapse of murder trials in New Brunswick due to a police error is both a failure in the justice system and a learning opportunity, says a criminal lawyer who represented a man charged in the two cases. “We know the system is fallible, but we do not know how often it fails,” said the lawyer, Nathan Gorham, in an interview with The Canadian Press. “It is important for anyone who has a stake in having a fair justice syste…
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