From: johnturmel@yahoo.com   
      
   JCT: Wednesday May 24, finally, Adrian got his Notice of   
   Appeal and Motion with Affidavit for release pending appeal   
   sworn in prison today. And faxed off to the Court of Appeal   
   and to the Crown Attorney's Office.   
      
   The Motion contains the Ali Baba Magic Words: And grant any   
   Order fixing or allowing anything wrong so justice may be   
   done."   
      
   It's slated for telephonic hearing on Friday. I told Adrian he   
   only has two cards to play:   
   1) He's no danger to society;   
   2) He's no flight risk with job and family.   
      
   Remember, those are the criteria for release pending appeal.   
   So I'd expect him, like me, Ray Turmel, Mike South, Sean   
   Maloney, to be released pending his appeal. Unless the judge   
   finds some technicality to keep him in.   
      
   And Court of Appeal judges are more genteel than lower judges,   
   they're farther and longer away from actual contact with law-   
   breakers. They usually deal with their lawyers, in robes. So   
   they're rarely mean. Though a Quebec judge once ruled that the   
   Great Canadian Gambler was such a threat to society that I   
   should not be released pending my appeal for the 1991   
   Operation Blackjack raid on Casino Turmel in Hull (Gatineau).   
   So you never know what a judge considers dangerous.   
      
   "Dangerous with a deck of cards" I can live with.   
      
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