From: johnturmel@gmail.com   
      
   JCT: Brian Dunseith and Linda M'Larkey are the last two S.7   
   production charges under the ACMPR being argued in Ontario.   
      
   After getting their Quash Motion dismissed, judge said he   
   was going to disobey the Parliament's Interpretation Act   
   that says only Parliament brings CDSA laws back to life and   
   go with the Ontario Court of Appeal's Hitzig decision that   
   the CDSA prohibitions killed by a bad exemption regime were   
   brought back to life when they fixed the MMAR exemption   
   regime two years later. On the Judicial Wall of Shame.   
      
   So Brian and Linda have been remitted to Superior Court for   
   a jury trial. Last expensive marijuana jury trial of the   
   era. Actually, I don't even know of any other marijuana jury   
   trials other than my guys.   
      
   Remember, in other jurisdictions, Tim McConnell, Luc   
   Lapierre had their S.7 production charge dropped to avoid   
   the jury trial above and relied only on the judge-alone   
   Possession offences.   
      
   But here, they have no lower court charges to pursue should   
   they withdraw the production charge.   
      
   So the Crown has no way to avoid the jury trial. Har har har   
   har har har. One last great waste of time.   
      
   Remember Nicolas Fontana's trial in Gatineau? 300 potential   
   jurors called in for what ended up a 25-minute trial! That   
   was the headline in Le Droit. A 25-minute jury trial. Adrien   
   Stuerm's Montreal trial was over in a day.   
      
   So the only way for the Crown to avoid a huge waste of time   
   is to withdraw the charge. Wonder what they're going to do.   
      
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