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Originally Posted by Roughneck
I doubt the Crown would have even proceeded with charges if they knew the full extent of the collusion and contact before hand.
What do you expect the Crown to do when one of their witnesses admits to being deceitful to police under examination and the lawyers for another bring up new information about contact after the incident they were told never happened the day before that witness was called?
It too late to pull the plug by the time everything went to hell for the Crown. Pretty sure after the cross of witness number one they saw the writing on the wall but it only got worse for them after that.
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In this case, the police and crown (not to mention the media) may have actually been too easy on the witnesses. If they had been challenged a little more, pressed a little harder, the omissions and deceptions may have come out before the trial.
People - all kinds of people - lie and deceive and try to turn things to their advantage. Our justice system recognizes that, and regards claims put forward by witnesses with skepticism. But we crave simple and emotionally-satisfying narratives. The news media has come to be just another source of those narratives, little different from movies or TV dramas in how they frame conflict. The verdict in the Ghomeshi trial has frustrated the narrative presented by the media, and now people will blame the justice system. Maybe we should blame the narrative. Life isn't an episode of CSI.