Selected Case Work
September, 2010

Arson

November 1991 ENG

• chemistry (accellerants)
• search warrant
• solicitor/client privilege
• informant statement
• arbitrary detention

December 1994 DEEN

• circumstantial evidence

Nov. 1996 ENG # 2

• retrial on 6 counts.

 

Assault

Nov 1997 BLAIS ET AL

• victim in coma
• use of U/C’s

 

Dangerous Offender Proceedings

December 1989 MUNDY

• dangerous

July 1992 ELSHAW

• dangerous

December 1992 GEORGE

• dangerous

 

Murder

January 1990 WILLIAMS

• chemistry (glass fragments, paint chips)
• footprints
• carpet fibres on victim
• voluntariness of statement
• June 1990 E.T. et alpathology
• serology
• voluntariness of statements
• s. 56 of the Young Offenders Act
• search and seizure
• footprints

September 1990 FISHER

• insanity

October 1990 WOODS

• voluntariness of statement

May 1991 ROBINSON

• blood stain analysis
• serology
• pathology
• statement
• Charter

June 1991 HOGBEN

• blood stain pattern analysis
• fibre (from accused's sock)
• voluntariness of statement

January 1992 NG

• documentation examination
• search and seizure

February 1992 HILLAIRET

• blood stain pattern analysis
• serology
• insanity
• voluntariness of statement

April 1992 J.N. & D.H.

• serology
• chemistry (paint chips)
• June 1992 IRWINwitness protection
• pathology
• firearms

Oct/Nov 1992 ROBSON

• fibre (from car on victim)
• voluntariness of statement

DNA

• search warrant

May 1993 SEYMOUR

• domestic murder
• intoxication

November 1993 SMITH (#1)

• DNA
• voluntariness of statement

December 1993 WATT

• footprint

December 1993 LIZOTTE

• youth

February 1994 GAMACHE

• s. 56(4) of the Young Offenders Act
• search warrant
• fibre evidence
• footprints

June 1994 SMITH (#2)

• DNA
• consent to known hair sample

Sept/Oct 1994 GUYATT

• circumstantial evidence
• plastic bag comparisons

Oct/Nov 1995 LAVERTY & MACDONALD

• prison murder

Feb 1996 HOANG

• circumstantial evidence
• sec 9 of Evidence Act

June 1996 HAYNES

• confession
• tool matching

August 1996 CAVEEN & WORTHY

• proximate cause of death

Sept. 1996 MAHEUX

• circumstantial evidence

Oct. 1996 BERRIGA

• Nuse of U/C’s to get confession

Oct/Nov 1996 BOOS

• use of U/C’s to get confession

Nov. 1996 KLAVEN

• circumstantial evidence

Feb 1997 SEYMOUR #2

• domestic homicide
• definition of provocation

April 1997 GRAHAM

• domestic homicide
  definition of drunkenness

June 1997 RIVOIRE

• search of cell & sec 8 of COR

Nov 1997 MACDONALD #2

• definition of provocation

Feb 1998 WARRENuse of U/C’s