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On October 23, 2009, Kyle Unger was formally acquitted of the 1990 murder of Brigitte Grenier after Assistant Deputy Attorney General Don Slough announced the Crown's decision that it would be unsafe to retry him on the available evidence.
Read the copy of Slough's submission to the court [Microsoft Word .doc 63kb]
Note: some of the pages of the five court transcripts below, which were obtained by the fifth estate through the Access To Information Act, have been exempt from release by the Department of Justice because it relates to crime and/or is considered personal information.
On Feb 3, 1992 Mr. Justice Hewak gave his ruling on the admissibility of Kyle Unger's wiretap confession obtained during the "Mr. Big" undercover RCMP operation.
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On Feb 6, 1992 on the first day of Kyle Unger's trial before the jury, Crown Prosecutor George Dangerfield called pathologist James Cadieux to testify about the human hair evidence.
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On Feb 11, 1992 George Dangerfield called witness jailhouse informant Jeffrey Ira Cohen who claimed that Unger confessed to him while they were in jail together.
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On Feb 25, 1992 George Dangerfield cross-examined Kyle Unger's mother.
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On Feb 26, 1992 George Dangfield gave the Crown's closing arguments to the jury at the joint murder trial of Kyle Unger and Timothy Houlahan.
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On July 30th, 2009 Frank Ostrowski filed a 696.1 application with Justice Minister Rob Nicholson requesting him to conclude that a miscarrage of justice likely occurred in his case, prosecuted by George Dangerfield. Justice Canada's Criminal Convictions Review Group subsequently retained independent lawyer John Briggs to review Ostrowski's case. Briggs is currently in the investigative phase of his review.
Read the copy of Ostrowski's Memorandum of Argument submitted July 30th on his behalf by Lockyer and AIDWYC [Microsoft Word .doc 1.9mb]
Federal Criminal Conviction Review Group
The Criminal Code gives the Minister of Justice the power to review a conviction to determine whether there may have been a miscarriage of justice. The Group is currently having Frank Ostrowski's case reviewed.
The Report of the Commission of Inquiry into Certain Aspects of the Trial and Conviction of James Driskell was made public in February of 2007. One of the recommendations was an external review of similar cases prosecuted by Dangerfield where a claim of wrongful conviction is made. [PDF 5.41mb]
During his first day of testimony at the Driskell Commission of Inquiry Dangerfield admitted he knew the testimony of the Crown's key witness Ray Zanidean was false. [PDF of transcript from Aug 14, 2006, 606kb]
During his second day of testimony at the Driskell Inquiry Dangerfield apologized to Driskell for the more than 13 years he spent in prison. [PDF of transcript from Aug 15, 2006, 531kb]
Aug 16, 2006 was the third and final day of testimony at the Driskell Inquiry by former Crown prosecutor George Dangerfield. [PDF 568kb]
Lawyer James Lockyer and the Association in Defence of the Wrongly Convicted made submissions to the Commission of Inquiry on behalf of Driskell. [PDF of submissions, 2.83mb]
The Report of the Commission of Inquiry into Trial and Conviction of James Driskell, 2006-2007.
Transcripts of hearings at Commission of Inquiry into James Driskell, 2006. (Dangerfield testified Aug 14-16)
Thomas Sophonow Inquiry Report, September 2001.
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