Holding aside the absurdity of the plot, the way this case is being covered in the media is enthralling. I don't know how many people on CP would actually be interested in sitting through a trial like this, but between all the evidence being uploaded to Scribd, the liveblog on the Edmonton Journal website and the little mini-repository the EJ has created for stories about this trial it's almost like being there.
I wish more high profile cases were covered this way. Ontario and BC are working on allowing cameras in the court room so maybe a few Canadian jurisdictions are only a couple of years from the kind of coverage we had of the OJ Simpson murder trial 16 years ago in the States.
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