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Derstine Penman Articling Student in Today’s Toronto Star

Click the link below to read an article featuring an interview with Derstine Penman articling student Stephanie DiGiuseppe on airport security and how it can interfere with your Charter rights. http://www.thestar.com/travel/article/904720–the-decade-of-9-11-critics-of-ramped-up-security-wonder-where-it-will-end

Acquittal on kidnapping and gun charges

The family breathed a sigh of relief as their son walked free after twenty months of incarceration on charges that would have sent him to the penitentiary for eighteen years. After a three week trial he walked free, acquitted by a jury that saw through the testimony of the witnesses called against him. This is […]

When Police Abuse Their Authority

There has been alot in the news lately about the Ottawa Police service and the behaviour of certain members of that force. In a nutshell, a female detainee, who appears to have been taken into custody because she was belligerent towards the police (not an arrestable offence as far as I know) was “strip searched” […]

Client Acquitted of Drive-by Shooting Charges

Genevieve McInnes was counsel at Superior Court in Brampton in a case that involved the discharging of a firearm in a busy plaza in Mississauga. At trial, Ms. McInnes challenged the credibility of the Crown’s principal witness, an alleged accomplice of the accused in the case. After several weeks of trial, the trial judge acquitted […]

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