Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 2, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 Winnipeg free november 1981 Frampton showed injuries to lawyers by Steve Pona two Winnipeg lawyers who inter viewed John Francis Frampton within an hour of his alleged beating in the Public safety building in told a preliminary hearing last sum Mer Frampton was obviously ill and injured when they saw Frampton indicated to me that he was continually beaten lawyer Jay Prober told the three Day preliminary hearing into an assault charge against Charles Baranetski and Douglas he didst know the cops As he put and he showed us some bruises on his Prober said the which were photographed by lawyer Robert appeared to be Carr testified Frampton was continually complaining that he was very ill he had terrible stomach and during the interview he vomited into a wastepaper Carr said he clearly recalled a number of Long red Marks on Framp tons and described other Marks on his Chest and Sharon Frampton testified that when the officers came to arrest her Hus Johnson searched their bedroom and found an apparently bloodstained he turned to John and said we have got you she Baranetski started calling her she and at one Point he raised his arms in a backhand motion to slap me provincial court judge Lawrie Mit Chell committed the officers to stand saying there was evidence to support the but whether it is believed is up to somebody the charge was stayed by Crown two escapees dangerous two men who the ramp say Are violent and extremely dangerous escaped from the Rockwood Annex of the Stony Mountain Institute Friday ramp said Isiah and Frank escaped from the jail at about and were still at Large last Osome was serving two years and six months for enter and assault causing bodily harm and breach of Laliberte was serving 10 years for rape and police Tei continued from Page 1 in almost any Case of police brutal the person who is making the allegation will normally be a person who is difficult to based on the fact that he is normally a said a former Crown the test in determining whether to believe the allegation is to look at the supporting Wolch said some of the inconsistencies in Frampton testimony might have been due to the fact that people dont keep track of How badly beaten they As Well As a natural tendency to Eagger he said the jury could have found he was a that he and still found he was but not As badly As he counsel John Guy last week at the outset of the fifth Day of their Assize court Guy told the jury he did not believe he could prove the charge beyond a reasonable he said in an interview there was no other evidence to support Frampton allegations in a definitive Way the two hour beating and the medical evidence Doest officers accused accused the officers of kicking and whipping him in an interview and forcing him to sign a statement confessing to the rape of a 14yearold the Manitoba police which investigated Frampton Allega ruled Frampton was injured while in police custody by Baranetski and the provincial Yap pointed which heard from 32 witnesses and deliberated three months before releasing its said there was evidence which can support an assault Guy said last week the commission did not have to prove the Case beyond a reasonable As he had to at the the standards of strict proof and that kind of thing Are much More he lawyer Hersh who defended Frampton on the rape said in an interview if the trial had gone on with the Issue and not clouding it with does he beat his then sure it should have gone to a jury and let them decide one Way or the but the Way the trial he i am not certain it should not have been ended when it Wolch said some of the areas raised in particularly an Edmonton police investigation into an apparent assault on Frampton might have been excluded As prejudicial and there Are a number of authorities that i could cite in support of Wolch in this its hard to imagine what the relevance other than to smear his feared coverup both Wolch and Prober said they did not report Frampton allegations until his subsequent rape trial because they were afraid of a police newly published portions of the police commissions report said Framp ton sustained injuries Between and july Prober and Carr met him at Prober said Frampton was groan ing and complained he had been beaten by police when he reached him by Telephone earlier that Prober told the police commission that he asked Johnson Why Frampton was and he replied he had to go to the Prober was not asked about Johnsons comment at the preliminary John Friesen testified that judg ing by his Frampton did not appear to have been kicked or struck at full Force by two police Friesen said essentially the same thing at the but added under questioning by judge two Strong police officers could have Hurt him much More severely than he was in fact if Frampton was assaulted by two they were certainly not in Juring him As much As they could they were certainly holding those remarks were not brought out at the officers the doctor was not asked about the conduct of the police officers who escorted Frampton to he told the police commission inquiry the offi cers knew about Frampton Alle and one of them referred to Frampton As an in staying the Guy said there were inconsistencies Between the in juries Frampton claimed he had re and what Friesen said he found in his but both Friesen and Tasa duo Ali who examined Frampton two Days said they would not have recorded every minor abrasion and phone Call received and while Friesen said he did not record a hand injury which was singled out for the jury As Well As one of Frampton two and All said they noted in other the victims Mother told the police commission she received what was termed an Iliad Vised phone Call from Johnson during the course of the challenging her recollection of certain she was not listed As a trial also not listed As a witness was former sergeant Joseph Gal the commission Lent further credence to its conclusion that Frampton was uninjured when he arrived at the police the rape complainants told the jury Frampton confided in 1979 that he had inflicted injuries on himself and intended to sue the officers for City Book store employee Lynne Mccarthy deletes contested reference from the Book stores comply continued from Page 1 beginning of the week and i Esti mate we have sold at least eight or 10 said a spokesman for the Portage Avenue store which had the Book prominently displayed in its window earlier last at Mary scorer in the Osborne a spokesman said they were first asked to take the Newman Book off the shelves entirely because of the pending libel we Are now just to White out the parts de scribed in the said the she said about 20 copies were in the store on Satur two other Large Bookstore Coles and appear to have been caught off by the Libby Coles Manitoba was out of the prov Ince on the weekend and local store managers were unsure what to do following the Debbie manager of Coles Portage Avenue had not heard of the court ruling until saturday she planned to do nothing to the 150 copies in her store until she received direction from head another Coles spokesman from the Eaton place store said copies of the Book had arrived earlier in the week but had remained unpacked because of the pending court Rory supervisor for Smiths Winnipeg was also unavailable for com ment spokesmen for the chains two Winnipeg stores said they had not been told what to do in Light of the decision but speculated they would be told to comply with the in uncensored of the Book were available in most Book stores most Vancouver bookstores interviewed said they had not been notified of the court Only the classic Mem Bers of a National said they had been told by their head office to doctor the defies belief Frampton testified the two officers kicked and whipped him Over a two hour and forced him to sign a statement confessing to Guy said that in he believes he took the right in order to prove the Case beyond a reasonable the members of the jury were going to have to accept Framp tons he if he was not that was he was the the other things that might have been Able to support they certainly had to be there in order to prove him beyond a reason Able but if they didst buy Framp tons 12 citizens Are not going to convict if they find the Man is not a truthful Frampton said in a recent interview compromises sought continued from Page 1 smoke Levesque new Brunswick Premier Richard hat an ally of said he has his own proposal on a charter of rights and an amending he did not disclose Manitoba Premier Sterling Lyon one of the dissident premiers most opposed to the Trudeau plan said in an interview with the free press after last nights ses Sion that his Bottom line is still Patria Tion of the 1867 British North America act and an amending other changes would have to come that position rules out a Char Ter of rights which Trudeau is Adamant must be Lyon last night stopped Short of say ing that the common front of the eight dissident premiers would definitely hold he said he is satisfied that the april Accord will be the main Posi Tion of the it will be up to Trudeau to make he i would expect going into the what the eight provinces will be looking for is a position from Trudeau that would come close to the Accord signed by the provinces in Lyon it offers an honorable Way out of the dilemma he Trudeau has found himself in and it is in Accord with the views of the majority of the people of if Trudeau were to sign that Accord the conference could end very quickly within an Lyon Saskatchewan Premier Allan Blakeney said he is not opposed to entrenching a charter and is willing to accept some form of but if Trudeau acts unilaterally he is also prepared to put a Resolution through his legislature opposing the Federal the Quebec National Assembly has already passed such a Resolution and Blakeney said a Saskatchewan Resolution would be used As ammunition during personal lobbying in most of the premiers have said they Are willing to but they want to see some real offers from Lyon said the dissident premiers have the upper hand in bargaining because of an historic supreme court decision which he interprets As a Victory for the provincial he said it is Trudeau who is in tentative pact okayed in Inco strike by Bob Lowery Winnipeg free press Thompson a majority of the Union negotiating committee has signed a memo Randum of agreement with Inco metals paving the Way for a vote thurs Day on a tentative settlement in a strike which began the employees Are members of local 6166 of the United steelworkers of the tentative settlement was reached Early saturday morning after two Days of discussions with the assistance of a Provin Cial the signing took place even though All shop committee men and picket captains rejected the tentative set six of the nine members on the Union bargaining committee signed the me Moran the offer is similar to one turned Down by a majority of the Union negotiators on this offer was never presented to the membership because Inco insisted that it be recommended by a majority of the negotiating committee before the proposal would be made its been five years a Little thing Here like the did this Guy say those things Are minor Inconis like the Brunt of the what i said they did to me can be supported by medical evidence and lawyer Robert Carrs which depicted Framp tons Baranetski and Johnson denied assault ing and told the inquiry they had no knowledge of How his injures were officers version but the commission said they had an Opportunity to inflict the injuries to say the in the absence of a satisfactory explanation consistent with one can infer that they caused the in the report said that in Light of the evidence of other the officers version of events during the time Frampton alleges he was assaulted is the report notes they claimed they did not search Frampton for weapons or to look for even though they were investigating a rape Case in which the complainant said she had punched him and scratched at his having regard to the experience of the two officers on the police their evidence in these matters defies it the report concludes we Are unable to act upon any part of their evidence relating to what happened from the time they brought Frampton to the Public safety building until turning him Over to fhe we find that they have a much More extensive knowledge of the events of the Day in question than they have chosen to relate to denies charge during the trial the rape complain ants father who told Frampton he was a police informer said Frampton confided he had inflicted the injuries on himself to sue the officers for Frampton denied his the alleged conversation took place after the police commission issued its the commission said the suggestion the injuries were self inflicted was raised at the inquiry and it pointed out it would have taken Frampton 20 minutes to accomplish the and to cause the red Mark he had on the Centre of his he would have had to throw himself against a door to cause other injuries he would have had to throw himself against a hit himself with his Belt folded in and generally a most unusual spectacle would have been involved which would have had to cause a substantial amount of the commission found the possibility that the injuries were self inflicted lies in the realm of speculation and conjecture and we have no reasonable doubt on that manufacturers and clearance dimly 7 Assiniboia Downs main floor hours sunday sponsored by ;