Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 29, 1983, Winnipeg, Manitoba F 0 Indian rights activist to seek new trial on rape Dirge Canada when Ami want it the became ins the jury an the danger of Renvie Tilg free Light of the by Kevin Prokosh we Indian fights activist Jama Legait serving his Sensone Ter raps his lawyer said re will apply to the Federal Justice Effii Kiister retrial bemused two Mem fees of the jury that Eon vied him flaw believe he is the Mafi Tieba court of Appeal the Day deliberated afew minutes fore unanimously upholding the victim of against who was found guilty last september of raping a Little grand rapids woman in her Motel room me was sentenced to two years less a in heading Ley had been on bail since his conviction pending an before dismissing the Alfred Monnin said he found no errors or misdirection on the part of the trial he called the charge to jury eminently fair and added the jurors must have believed the Plain ant and not the Jamess Stephen said later he will ask the Justice minister this week to investigate the propriety of the verdict reached by the Fourman last two female jurors told the fret after the trial they believed James was innocent but Felt pressured by other jury members to go along with the one of the women claimed she want fully in formed of the options before and was not aware the jury could bring in a split decision and that she could hold a dissenting Kata 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 to the supreme count of Canada on Point of Law or apply to the minister of Justice As set out in the criminal if the minister agrees to an he can intervene in the ease and direct a new Kati said he Hopes the minister will look into the ease Nyen do til a fit it the tee Goffig ing the jury m the Daf get of Eon Valeting Dei filet he taste is the the ate sea selely trim the Une Effen Ity that Beffe the he Tefa Ted evidence of the Fra Fries be released pm the ease Ras based Al Flitte Esel sively in the of the Katz of Ped in that Lastiee said the trial judge Refl Jalifi Hewak 6f the gout of Sherid have panted Eutte the july that Queens Benth offed by fast it is dangers us to take he evidence at value in Light of the diet ens in her testify Flony Salij grown prosecutor Brian Kaplan Saiu it is net tire function of the court is retry the ease or substitute its views Tel thase of the jury by weighing probabilities arising from the two airlines get fines for flying overweight 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 overweight under the aeronautics act and was fined on each Federal Crown prosecutor Peter Kremer said the charges stemmed from a ministry of transport ligation into Winnipeg International Airport commercial an analysis of the flight log showed one perimeter airlines carrying 11 flew with an excess of 413 kilograms 917 pounds on a second carrying 10 sengers on 224 Grams 498 pounds Over its Maxi Kremer in imposing the judge Robert Kopstein said perimeter had an added responsibility because it was carrying passengers and not just infer Riverton airways pleaded guilty to 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 dc3 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 Peg and Poplar River on was kilograms pounds Kremer the Crown 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 to 12 since Winnipeg police began investigating the scam earlier this a was apprehended Friday after he a fake pass while boarding a bus near Broadway and Colony he is to face a charge in 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 j charged with theft and possessing goods obtained the Man is to appear in court april sexually attacked two female party hosts fell victim to separate 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 Early saturday threatened with a and sexually assaulted by her last after the she escaped to another room and who arrested a Man at the door of the police the was charged with aggravated sexual sexual assault with a forcible and possessing a dangerous the victim was treated and released from the health sciences i in the second a Man accompanied a to a party at her Avenue 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 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 to overcome said face Long list of charges Winnipeg police have charged five people and expect to make More arrests following several offences which took place Between last december and earlier this on two men distracted the clerk at a beverages store at 2211 Mcphillips and stole receipts hidden near a counter said a police one was arrested in his Home Friday on ithe 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 and theft at his Winnipeg a and a also have been with conspiracy to commit said other charges Laid against some of the five group 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 consolidated All the issues in the protracted dispute Between to 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 adjourned until june 17 when the main questions in the longstanding and confusing Wrangle will be the Case began when 20 company by the Manitoba food and commercial workers seeking a first went on strike in last the Union asked labor minister Mary Japeth Dolin to following her she directed the labor Board to impose a first the company obtained a stay of proceedings from Justice James Wilson of Manitoba court of Queens Plack Woods alleged Dolin Dicj not investigate the Platter sufficiently before referring it to the the Union later withdrew request for an imposed contract and the minister reacted by withdraw ing the application from the labor the Union Reapp Becj last november to the minister in again examine the need to impose a first Polin directed the labor Board to get r Blackwood appealed judge Wilsons decision to dismiss a company application challenging the min Sisters right to withdraw the unions initial request for a first contract to make Way for the broader lawyers for sides agreed yesterday to quash the ministers Jerst direction last july allow the com Janys Appeal of judge Wilsons nonstop than any other airline the Best schedule in toe business 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