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Originally Posted by Goriders
The witnesses the defence called to the stand all seemed to corroborate what the players were saying. Whether that’s enough to get them off remains to be seen. But it certainly didn’t help the crown’s case.
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Not just the defense but I believe Crown witnesses as well. But the Crown addressed it in their closing argument about not believing the parroted false narrative.
And we know this to be fact. We have McLeod texting the group "We all need to say the same thing if we get interviewed". We also know they lied, because they contend that they went up for pizza, when we know the real texts that got them up in the room was asking who wanted to have a three-way.
We know that Bean and Steenbergen lied about going up for food. We know that Foote and Dube had told people not to say what actually happened, so the witnesses intentionally omitted it. The judge knows this too. She knows they are scumbags.
I think there is still reasonable doubt, would be pleasantly surprised if there is any guilty verdict, but I don't think it will be because of the witnesses. I'm sure the Crown would have loved for one of them to grow a conscious but they didn't. Still, at least they had them admit they conspired with one another to all have the same story that was refuted by the text messages that were available as evidence and that won't fool the judge.