Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 29, 1983, Winnipeg, Manitoba Dian Righte activist to seek new trial on rape charge at if Alf tit off Tecl a by Kevin Prokosh while Indian fights activist James began serving his Sefl Tefike of Fang his lawyer said he will apply the Federal Justice minister for retrial because Twe members of the jury that convicted him new believe he is the Manitoba court of Appeal Ter Day deliberated a few minutes fore Maniff Ldusky upholding the Een Stephen said later he win ask the Justice minister this week the investigate the propriety of the verdict reaped by the Feurman jury last two female jurors told the Ftp after the trial they believed James was Innee eni but Felt vie Tion against who was found by Ether jury members to be guilty last september of raping a Little with one of the grand rapids woman in her Motel Zoffl gel claimed she want fully formed of the options before and was not aware the jury Sauld bring in a split decision and that she could hold a dissenting Katf could not raise the sures made by the jurors before the court yesterday because evidence from a juror or a third party As to alleged impropriety during deliberations is admissible in an appellate the options open to the defence Are to Appeal the the supreme court of Canada in a Point of Law or apply to the minister of Justice set out in the criminal if the minister agrees the an he can intervene in the ease and direct a new Katf said he Hopes the minister will look into the ease you dont want it the become Deff Icv he there is the Possi Biu Ity that before the minister he James could be released on a argued in Weort that Justice Benjamin Hewak of the court of Queens Bench erred by not ing the jury on the danger of Eon Vietig the Aew sed solely upon the meow berated evidence of the the crowns ease was based almost exclusively in the testimony of the said the trial judge should have pointed out the the jury that it is dangerous to take her evidence at face value in Light of the diction in her testimony Crown prosecutor Brian Kaplan said it is not the function of the est to retry the ease or substitute its views for those of the jury by weighing probabilities arising from the two airlines get fines for flying overweight room he was sentenced to two years less a Day in heading Ley had been on bail since his conviction pending an before dismissing the Justice Alfred Monnin said he found no errors or misdirection on the part of the trial he called the charge to the jury eminently fair and added the jurors must have believed the an analysis of the flight log shewed ene perimeter airlines carrying 11 flew with an excess of 413 kilograms 917 pounds on a second carrying 10 the aeronautic act and Wavd on each Federal Crown prosecutor Peter Kremer said the charges stemmed from a ministry of transport invest two airline companies which flew overweight received fines totalling More than yesterday in provincial judges perimeter airlines Inland pleaded guilty to two charges of flying ligation into Winnipeg International carry Airport commercial in imposing the judge Bert Kopstein said had an added responsibility because it was carrying passengers and not just Lefor Riverton airways pleaded guilty the three charges under the Nautis act and was fined on Kremer told the court the charges arose after an investigation showed discrepancies involving falsified log entries for some Kremer said the charges related to three flights when the company dc4 planes flew on during a flight Between Winnipeg and Sandy one aircraft was calculated to be overweight by kilograms the second charge followed a flight Between Winnipeg and Little grand rapids when the plane carried 885 extra kilograms extra the third Between Winni Peg and Poplar River on was kilograms pounds Kremer the grown counsel said the lines management has changed since the offences Man arrested after flashing fake bus pass two More people have been arrested for using or owning forged bus bringing the number of arrests to 12 since Winnipeg police began investigating the scam earlier this a was apprehended Friday after he showed a fake pass while boarding a bus near Broadway and Colony he is to face a charge in provincial judges court next month of uttering a forged in a separate incident police found another forged pass in the Possession of a Man arrested for stealing Worth of chocolate bars from a Sargent Avenue charged with theft and possessing goods obtained by the Man is to appear in court april hostesses sexually attacked two female party hosts fell victim to separate incidents of sexual assaults last weekend when each woman found herself alone with a Man who had not left with the other one was taken to her basement bed room Early saturday threatened with a knife and sexually assaulted by her last after the she escaped to another room and phoned who arrested a Man at the door of the police the was charged with aggravated sexual sexual assault with a forcible confinement and possessing a dangerous the victim was treated and released from the health sciences in the second a Man accompanied a to a party at her Machray Avenue Home after meeting her Friday night in a main Street when the male made sexual advances to the woman after other guests had left the the woman locked herself in a the Man broke the bathroom door and attacked said the Man fled after the woman ran into the Street and a neighbor phoned for said a was arrested sunday on Stella Avenue and charged with aggravated sexual assault and choking to overcome said five face Long list of charges Winnipeg police have charged five people and expect to make More arrests following several property offences which took place Between last december and earlier this on two men distracted the clerk at a Pic pop beverages store at 2211 Mcphillips Street and stole receipts hidden near a counter said a police one was arrested in his Home Friday on the theft automobile parts missing since a Leila Avenue breaking 1 were also found in the mans said the Man also faces charges of conspiracy to defraud an insurance company by falsely reporting a breaking and theft at his Winnipeg a and a also have been charged with conspiracy to commit said other charges Laid against some of the five group members include conspiracy to break into and steal from a Leila Avenue garage 3 and a breaking March 14 at the Deer Lodge Curling of the four adults one is a and the others Are men Between the Ages of 19 and they Are to appear in court april first contract Case consolidated All the issues in the protracted dispute Between Backwoods beverages of Dauphin and the provincial minister of labor Over first contract legislation have been combined and will be heard in the Manitoba court of Appeal in Justice Alfred Monnin yesterday ordered the Case adjourned until june 17 when the main questions in the longstanding and confusing Wrangle will be the Case began when 20 company represented by the Manitoba food and commercial workers seeking a first went on strike in last the Union asked labor minister Mary Beth Polin to following her she directed the labor Board to impose a first the company obtained 3 stay of proceedings from Justice James Wilson of Manitoba court of Queens Blackwood alleged Dolin did not investigate the matter sufficiently before referring it to the the Union later withdrew its request for an imposed first contract and the minister reacted by withdraw ing the application from the labor the Union reapplied last november to the minister to again examine the need to impose a first once Dolin directed the labor Board to get Plack Woods judge Wilsons decision to dismiss a company application challenging the ministers right to withdraw the unions initial request for a first contract to make Way for the broader lawyers for both sides agreed yesterday to the ministers first direction last Jilly and allow the company Appeal of judge Wilsons nonstop than any of Hep airline the Best schedule in toe 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