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The lead lawyer for the legal team representing Freedom Convoy personalities Tamara Lich and Chris Barber told The Post Millennial Thursday that the length of time the trial has consumed is “unlike 99 percent of mischief charges” in Canada.
The Freedom Convoy trial resumed this week after a more than two-month hiatus.
Lawrence Greenspon said the trial will now continue until at least August after Judge Heather Perkins-McVey agreed on March 7 that she would entertain arguments from the prosecution that Lich and Barber acted as co-conspirators while participating in the Freedom Convoy protests.
The trial began in September 2023, after the Labor Day long weekend.
The pair are charged with mischief, counseling others to commit mischief, intimidation, and obstructing police as leaders of the Freedom Convoy that polarized residents of Ottawa in 2022 and arguably began to roll back Covid mandates.
The prosecution is now preparing to argue that Lich and Barber acted in unison and that any evidence used against one should apply to both. The legal precedent for this is known in legal terms as the Carter Application.
Co-defense attorney Diane Magas said the length of the trial has become a financial encumbrance upon the defendants who must travel between Ottawa and their homes in Saskatchewan and Alberta to attend the trial.
Greenspon told TPM that the Carter application has “without question” turned what was planned to be a 16-day trial into something that has now more than doubled in that anticipated length.
The lawyer noted that it was “fortunate” that most mischief trials “don’t typically take 40 days” to reach a verdict. “And if that were the case, nobody would ever seek justice in the Canadian justice system.”
When asked why the prosecution is so focused on labeling Lich and Barber as “co-conspirators,” Greenspon said that would be a question best directed at the Crown attorneys.
“I suspect that because there are a whole bunch of people in the Ottawa core who were inconvenienced, in some cases, temporarily uncomfortable. That is possibly the engine for the intensity of prosecution," he told TPM.
The Freedom Convoy trial resumed this week after a more than two-month hiatus.
Lawrence Greenspon said the trial will now continue until at least August after Judge Heather Perkins-McVey agreed on March 7 that she would entertain arguments from the prosecution that Lich and Barber acted as co-conspirators while participating in the Freedom Convoy protests.
The trial began in September 2023, after the Labor Day long weekend.
The pair are charged with mischief, counseling others to commit mischief, intimidation, and obstructing police as leaders of the Freedom Convoy that polarized residents of Ottawa in 2022 and arguably began to roll back Covid mandates.
The prosecution is now preparing to argue that Lich and Barber acted in unison and that any evidence used against one should apply to both. The legal precedent for this is known in legal terms as the Carter Application.
Co-defense attorney Diane Magas said the length of the trial has become a financial encumbrance upon the defendants who must travel between Ottawa and their homes in Saskatchewan and Alberta to attend the trial.
Greenspon told TPM that the Carter application has “without question” turned what was planned to be a 16-day trial into something that has now more than doubled in that anticipated length.
The lawyer noted that it was “fortunate” that most mischief trials “don’t typically take 40 days” to reach a verdict. “And if that were the case, nobody would ever seek justice in the Canadian justice system.”
When asked why the prosecution is so focused on labeling Lich and Barber as “co-conspirators,” Greenspon said that would be a question best directed at the Crown attorneys.
“I suspect that because there are a whole bunch of people in the Ottawa core who were inconvenienced, in some cases, temporarily uncomfortable. That is possibly the engine for the intensity of prosecution," he told TPM.
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