anyone still out here? Would love to chat -- writing a major piece on PG.   
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   On Saturday, February 1, 1997 at 3:00:00 AM UTC-5, Dr. Robert Riley wrote:   
   > From:   
   > Xtra! (Toronto's Lesbian and Gay Biweekly)   
   > 2nd Floor, 491 Church Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada   
   >   
   > January 30, 1997   
   >   
   > COURTS TO REVIEW PROJECT GUARDIAN   
   > Have police discriminated against gay men?   
   >   
   > Story by Joseph Couture   
   >   
   > The tables have turned on Project Guardian  --  and now it's the London   
   police   
   > who'll be on trial.   
   >   
   > Defence lawyer David Corbett has successfully argued to a London judge that   
   > one of his clients cannot be fairly tried without examining the way in which   
   > police handled some of their investigations in the Project Guardian dragnet.   
   >   
   > "In the exercise of their investigation and prosecutorial discretion, the   
   > London Police Force has applied different standards and techniques to   
   policing   
   > alleged sexual offences involving juvenile males and juvenile females, based   
   > on their belief that homosexuality is bad in and of itself, and that sexual   
   > relationships between juvenile males and other males are bad and unnatural,"   
   > Corbett told a judge during a December Ontario Court, General Division   
   > hearing.   
   >   
   > And Justice Peter Hockin ruled, in a decision signed Jan 10, that the court   
   > should examine whether police have discriminated on the basis of sexual   
   > orientation.   
   >   
   > No date has yet been set for that hearing.   
   >   
   > Lawyer Corbett calls the ruling precedent setting.  It sends the message that   
   > "police forces cannot exercise their discretion in a manner that   
   discriminates   
   > on the basis of sexual orientation."   
   >   
   > But Corbett warns that activists should not expect too much of the review.   
   >   
   > The main issue, he says, is the apparently selective application of the law   
   > pertaining to under-aged prostitutes, and not to Project Guardian in its   
   > entirety.  Project Guardian, launched by the London Police, has resulted in   
   > the arrest of more than 60 gay men.  They have been branded as paedophiles,   
   > but the majority have in fact been charged with paying someone under 18 for   
   > sex.  Most of the hustlers are over 14, the legal age of consent.   
   >   
   > Corbett is representing a Toronto resident who is facing prostitution-related   
   > charges involving young males.   
   >   
   >   
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