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 "Silence is not an option: Toronto lawyer Leora Shemesh tells her side of the story of ‘Free Our Hostages’ hoodies being unwelcome at Scotiabank Arena")
Silence is not an option: Toronto lawyer Leora Shemesh tells her side of the story of ‘Free Our Hostages’ hoodies being unwelcome at Scotiabank Arena
 "Hamilton Detective Who Admitted To Lying In Court Now Facing Criminal Investigation")
A Hamilton police officer who admitted to lying in court is facing a criminal investigation by an outside police agency....
 "CHARGES DROPPED AFTER HAMILTON POLICE DETECTIVE ADMITS LYING IN COURT")
Prosecutors have dropped drug and gun charges against two people after a Hamilton police officer admitted to lying in his testimony about information from a...
 "‘THE FALL GUY’: HOW AN ONTARIO MAN GOT BLAMED FOR TWO MAFIA MURDERS ...")
Jabril Abdalla was left holding the bag by his friends and police. 'I knew nothing about what was going on,' he says in an exclusive interview.
 "CANADA’S BIGGEST CARFENTANIL DRUG TRIAL CONCLUDES")
Masked lawyers delivered closing arguments behind plexiglass Wednesday at the trial of Maisum Ansari, an Oshawa businessman charged with possession of ...
 "DEFENCE IN CARFENTANIL CASE ATTEMPTS TO DISCREDIT 'SUSPICIOUS' WEB ACTIVITY")
The lawyer for the owner of a Pickering home where 42 kilograms of carfentanil was discovered nearly three years ago threw water on the Crown’s allegations that her ...
 "GTA PUPPY RESCUER ENDURES 26 HOURS OF DETENTION HELL IN AIRPORT")
Kristin Markoff felt “shocked and violated” when she was held in detention for 26 hours at Pearson airport earlier this month. The Brampton paralegal, who often travels to ...
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 "ACQUITTED IN MURDER TRIAL, FORMER ASPIRING MODEL IS REUNITED WITH BABY SHE ...")
A jury in Newmarket has convicted a man of first-degree murder in the shooting death of a Markham man, but acquitted his co-accused, a once-aspiring model who ...
 "MANDEL: TORONTO DEFENCE LAWYER WHO TOOK ON PEEL POLICE HAS CHARGES ...")
KITCHENER — She should never have been treated like this. Three years after she was arrested, fingerprinted and photographed, a fearless Toronto criminal defence lawyer ...
 "TORONTO LAWYER CLEARED OF PERJURY, OBSTRUCTION CHARGES AFTER DEFENCE ...")
KITCHENER — In an unusual move, the Crown has withdrawn perjury and obstruction of justice charges against Toronto defence lawyer Leora Shemesh ...
 "JUDGE ACQUITS TORONTO COOK, RULING POLICE USED EXCESSIVE FORCE")
A judge has stayed impaired driving, assault to resist arrest and other charges against a Toronto cook, ruling police used excessive force and seemed “indifferent to the truth”
 "FORCING BRA REMOVAL VIOLATED WOMAN'S CHARTER RIGHTS: JUDGE")
TORONTO - A woman accused of drunk driving had her Charter rights violated when police forced her to remove her underwire bra, a Superior Court judge ruled.
 "JUDGE FINDS WOMAN ORDERED TO REMOVE HER BRA BY YORK POLICE WAS ...")
A judge has criticized an unwritten York Regional Police safety policy requiring women suspects to remove their underwire bras while they’re detained in police cells.
 "DEFENCE LAWYER ALLEGES TORONTO OFFICERS DIVERTED 7 KILOS OF METH INTO ...")
Why would a drug dealer leave seven kilos of methamphetamine, worth $300,000, sitting on the back seat of his car overnight in a downtown Toronto parking lot ...
 "MEET LEORA SHEMESH: THE POLICE FORCE’S ENEMY NO. 1 IN COURT")
For some police officers and Crown attorneys in the Greater Toronto Region, defence lawyer Leora Shemesh is public enemy No. 1. She has built a reputation ...
 "JUDGE BLASTS PEEL POLICE OFFICERS IN COCAINE CASE")
A group of Peel Regional police officers "essentially colluded and then committed perjury en masse," in their handling of a drug case that began more than two years ago ...
 "PEEL DRUG COPS TOLD CALCULATED LIES IN COURT, JUDGE SAYS")
Peel Region Police say they are conducting an internal investigation after a judge’s damning words about the “reprehensible” conduct of members of their drug squad.
 "JUROR ALLEGES SHE WAS COERCED INTO MURDER VERDICT IN CHRISTOPHER ...")
A lawyer is taking the relatively rare step Monday of asking a judge to investigate a woman’s claims she was coerced by fellow jurors into convicting a man of ...
 "UNDERWIRE BRA SUPPORTS DRUNK DRIVING DEFENCE")
An underwire bra is at the centre of an impaired driving case after police asked a suspect to remove her lingerie over concerns it could be used as a “weapon.”
 "NOT GUILTY IN FATAL SHOOTING OF 11-YEAR-OLD")
TORONTO — After deliberating all weekend, a Superior Court jury found two men not guilty of second-degree murder in the fatal shooting of 11-year-old Ephraim Brown ...
 "MEN ACQUITTED IN KILLING OF EPHRAIM BROWN")
For the family of Ephraim Brown, it was a day of anguish and incomprehension that apparently no one will ever be brought to justice for snuffing out the life of the ...
 "SCC BACKS CIVIL REMEDIES ACT")
The criminal defence bar is condemning a Supreme Court of Canada decision backing Ontario’s Civil Remedies Act, saying the province now has an easier route ...
 "GROW-OP ARREST BEGAN WITH DOGS ON THE LOOSE")
Meet the alleged tip of the proverbial iceberg: Edmond Young Dun Kim is an accused grow-op producer, and if the estimates of police forces across the ...
