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An off-duty Toronto police officer razor-thin claim to self-defence evaporated when he struck a badly injured and retreating Black teen in the head with a metal pipe, an Ontario judge said Friday in convicting him of assault.Const. Michael Theriault was cleared, however, of the more serious charge of aggravated assault in the 2016 beating that left Dafonte Miller, then 19, with a ruptured eye and other serious injuries.Ontario Superior Court Justice Joseph Di Luca said that while Miller eye injury met the threshold for aggravated assault, he could not rule out the possibility that Theriault and his brother Christian were a
vaso stanley cting in self-defence as they delivered the blows that caused it 鈥?though he acknowledged they probably weren ;t. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW However, the self-defence argument vanished when the off-du
stanley vattenflaska ty officer armed himself with a roughly metre-long metal pipe and attacked Miller, who had slipped away from the two men and was trying to get help from a nearby home, the judge said.Christian Theriault was no longer involved in the fight at that point
stanley bottles and thus must be acquitted, Di Luca said. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW Both brothers were also acquitted on obstruction of justice for how they described the incident to investigators. They had pleaded not guilty on all counts.The verdict, delivered amid ongoing protests against syst Tsbc New office towers, bike lanes and dozens of pot shops: How Toronto has changed while you were locked down
OTTAWA 鈥?The House of Commons has unanimously approved in principle 鈥?for the third time 鈥?a bill that would require judges to commit to take training in sexual assault law.Bill C-3 will now be scrutinized by the Commons justice committee, which could yet propose amendments.The proposed legislation originated as a private member bill from former interim Conservative leader Rona Ambrose, which the Liberal government supported. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW
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stanley cup the old boys club for throwing up procedural roadblocks, while Conservative senators said they were prioritizing government legislation as the clock ran out. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW The Liberals revived Ambrose effort as a government bill in Febru
stanley cup ary. It won unanimous support in principle and was under study by the justice committee when the Commons was adjourned in March due to the COVID-19 pandemic.That bill ultimately died when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau prorogued Parliament in August but has now been resurrected once again. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW Conservative Leader Erin O ;Toole had said his party would support the latest iteration of the bill but his MPs refused ov
