From: johnturmel@gmail.com   
      
   TURMEL: Good Crown, Bad Crown move on Medpot Dominic Gravel   
      
   JCT: Dominic Gravel was in Quebec Superior Court today to   
   set a date for his jury trial. At his last appearance,   
   Madame Justice Mandeville had put it off with the hope the   
   Crown might find some way to end it without a trial.   
      
   So he got an invitation to meet with the prosecution before   
   the hearing this morning.   
      
   So, yesterday, he got a call from the Crown offering to drop   
   the production charge for Superior Court Jury trial if he'd   
   plead guilty in lower court to possession and take a year   
   house arrest!   
      
   At today's meeting, they had a tag-team of Crowns. Mr.   
   Petitclerc was also there. He was the Crown 15 years ago who   
   prosecuted him for the 6,000 plant bust! Huge! He was being   
   held without bail and after numerous motions to quash over   
   4 months, they finally offered him time served and be out in   
   time for Christmas if he pleaded. So he happily took the   
   deal. 4 months for a 6,000 plant bust was quite the coup.   
      
   But Petitclerc tried to intimidate Dominic. He said that the   
   Turmel kits had never won before and that if he didn't take   
   the deal, he'd jail him and his mother would die while he   
   was gone. Ugly stuff.   
      
   Remember, he couldn't win last time and won't win this time,   
   especially since the issue is his moving his plants outside.   
   They were legal inside but illegal outside. Big crime! Har   
   har har.   
      
   So they wanted to put it off again to give him time to think   
   about it. He told the court he wasn't going to be changing   
   his mind and that they should spend the time thinking about   
   changing their minds.   
      
   But he agreed not to serve and file his Quash Motion as   
   Justice Mandeville adjourned his hearing for June 10. So no   
   chance he's going to make the May assizes, trial late this   
   year or next.   
      
   Dominic was so angry at the nasty threat about his mother   
   that we decided to teach the Crown a lesson. He went to   
   their offices and served the Quash motion on them but did   
   not go file it. Just serve it on them so they have something   
   in hand to read as they contemplate what they're going to   
   do.   
      
   And they haven't even seen the constitutional motion that   
   comes next! Har har har.   
      
   So nothing much came of their attempted coercion of a plea   
   deal to eliminate his jury trial in Superior Court. Not a   
   chance! That's the inconvenient threat of a big waste of   
   time and resources we're counting on to make them give up.   
      
   I can't really tell you right now what other cards Dominic   
   has up his sleeve in case they're reading this.   
      
   Kind of neat that this will be the last very last case under   
   the old regime but they're really between a rock and a hard   
   place.   
      
   Stay tuned for developments on June 10 in Gatineau court. I   
   wonder who they're going to do a jury trial in Covid times?   
   Zoom call?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)