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[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago (5 children)

The answers you seek are in the article, and the ruling.

[–] jadero@lemmy.ca -1 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I'm well aware. I was responding to what seems to be your opinion that justice is always best served by keeping the trial in the community in which the offense occurred.

[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I don't think you should be able to go to Singapore and commit drug crimes then expect to be tried in Canada and I don't think you should be able to come to Ottawa and torture, harass, threaten, intimidate, and put out of work tens of thousands of citizens then expect to be tried somewhere else.

[–] jadero@lemmy.ca -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Singapore is nonsensical, because that's a completely different jurisdiction.

For Ottawa-specific laws, there is probably no real choice but to stay in Ottawa. For provincial and federal laws, there are options. I don't necessarily agree that change of venue should be a given, but it is a commonly accepted means of trying to ensure impartiality. I'm not sure that there is anywhere in Canada where this trial could be conducted without the spectre of bias, but, whether we like it or not, change of venue is one of the tools available.

[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

change of venue is one of the tools available.

And it was denied. And I'm good with that.

[–] jadero@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago
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