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Umar Zameer

Dirty Frank said:
Guess they lost this one out of their bag of dirty tricks.
Had it odds on that he was screwed.
nationalpost.com

Ontario jury checks could mar dozens of trials

The spectre of dozens of jury verdicts in Ontario being called into question appears more likely after a judge in Windsor declared a mistrial on Tuesday…
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"The lead Crown attorney in that case is still based in Barrie as a prosecutor. His co-counsel is now a Superior Court judge."

So the decay has reached the upper levels.
 
Zameer has a gofundme for legal fees. Trying to raise 200k. At 190K now (I think 150k yesterday).

It was started in 2021 and had 30K in it until after the acquittal. Money coming in fast now.

www.gofundme.com

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Am not condoning any wrong-doing, this extract from an article by Matthew T. Martens [an eminent US based trial lawyer, ex-Federal Prosecutor, ex-Defense Attorney] is food for thought.

The conundrum of wrongful conviction has stalked mankind from the earliest of ages. Irenaeus of Lyon (AD c. 130–c. 202), in his influential work Against Heresies, recognizes the authority of magistrates to bear the sword and also implies that “whatsoever they [the magistrates] do to the subversion of justice, iniquitously, and illegally, and tyrannically, in these things shall they also perish".

If a criminal justice system is designed and operated so that it takes all reasonable means to avoid wrongful convictions, then a government official (whether judge, prosecutor, or police officer) who participates in that system is not a wrongdoer even if that system results in a wrongful conviction. For the most part, “just following the law” will be a defense that absolutely precludes criminal prosecution of a government official.
The police are protected by a qualified immunity that is nearly absolute.
[Pierson v. Ray, 386 U.S. 547, 557 (1967) qualified police immunity]

The person wrongfully convicted in that situation has most certainly suffered an injustice, thankfully this has not happened in this case being discussed.

[Yes, the US justice system is not the same as the commonwealth's, but the occurrence of possible wrongful conviction happens in both jurisdictions]
 
crankcall said:
He going to want to avoid a traffic stop for the next twenty yrs in the GTA
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From the impression I get of the man that won't be a problem for him.......unless it's a punitive authoritay stop from an ALPR hit.
 
Long read:

In his book "Blink" Malcolm Gladwell gives several examples of how in the blink of the eye person reads and reacts to a situation. Chapter six "Seven Seconds in the Bronx"

February 3, 1999

A 22 year old immigrant living in a troubled area went outside of his apartment building around midnight and stood at the top of the entry stairs.

A special plain clothes crime unit was on a patrol with four police officers in an unmarked Taurus. When they saw the guy standing on the stairs they thought it suspicious and they rushed the guy.

The immigrant panicked and ran for the door, reaching into his pocket for his keys. One officer thought he was reaching for a gun and open fired. Another officer tripped going up the stairs and the other two officers thought he had been shot and they opened fire blasting the innocent victim to pieces, 41 shots, (American Skin) a song by Springstein


The officers were hit with various murder charges but acquitted because their reaction was reasonable from what they saw.

What they didn't see was that there was a language barrier plus one of the victim's friends had once been robbed by a similar looking gang of thugs. It was late night in a high crime neighbourhood so what would be the first reaction of the innocent party?

Whoever planned this operation failed to see it from the eyes of everyone that became involved.

This happened 25 years ago. Why haven't the optics filtered down?
 
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