{"id":473,"date":"2016-03-24T11:42:45","date_gmt":"2016-03-24T19:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/?p=473"},"modified":"2016-03-24T11:43:45","modified_gmt":"2016-03-24T19:43:45","slug":"tainted-testimony-leads-to-ghomeshi-acquittal-on-all-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/?p=473","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Tainted&#8217; testimony leads to Ghomeshi acquittal on all charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>An Ontario Court judge has acquitted Jian Ghomeshi on four counts of sexual assault and one count of choking, saying the &#8220;deceptive and manipulative&#8221; evidence of complainants raised a reasonable doubt in the guilt of the former CBC Radio host.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/toronto\/jian-ghomeshi-sexual-assault-trial-ruling-1.3505446\">&#8216;Tainted&#8217; testimony leads to Ghomeshi acquittal on all charges<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>I note that this article made particular reference to a part of paragraph 140 of Justice Horkins&#8217; judgement:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Horkins&#8217; added that while the evidence in the case raises a reasonable doubt, it &#8220;is not the same as deciding in any positive way that these events never happened.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That sentence was followed by:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At the end of this trial, a reasonable doubt exists because it is impossible to determine, with any acceptable degree of certainty or comfort, what is true and what is false<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Court in this circumstance is saying that the crown witnesses, all of them were so unreliable, that the Court doesn&#8217;t know what happened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Ontario Court judge has acquitted Jian Ghomeshi on four counts of sexual assault and one count of choking, saying the &#8220;deceptive and manipulative&#8221; evidence of complainants raised a reasonable doubt in the guilt of the former CBC Radio host. Source: &#8216;Tainted&#8217; testimony leads to Ghomeshi acquittal on all charges I note that this article [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment-law","category-litigation","category-professional-discipline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}