Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 29, 1983, Winnipeg, Manitoba F 0 Winnipeg free tues Dave March Indian rights activist to seek new trial Oil by Kevin Prokosh White Indian hights activist John Jiffies began serving the sentence for face his lawyer said he will apply to the Federal Justice minister for a retrial because two members of the Juty thai est evicted him flow believe he is the Manitoba court of Appeal yesterday deliberated a few minutes be fore unanimously upholding the conviction against who was found guilty last september of taping a Little grand rapids woman in her Motel room me was sentenced to two years less a Day in Madingley 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 me called the charge to the jury eminently fair and added the jurors must have believed the com police 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 eight Fourman last two female jurors told the free press after the trial they James was innocent but Felt pressured by other jury members to go along with the 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 Katz 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 in admissible in an appellate the options open to the defence Are to Appeal to the supreme court of Canada on a Point of Law or apply to the minister of Justice As get out in the criminal if the minister agrees to an he can intervene in the Case and direct a new Katz said he Hopes the minister will look into the Case flir dont want it the become Aca he there is the possibility that before the minister he James Euld be released on Kats argued in court that Justice Benjamin Merak of the court of Queens Bench erred by not caution ing the jury on the danger of convicting the accused solely upon the uncork for borate evidence of the the crowns Case was based almost exclusively on testimony of the said the trial judge should have pointed out to the jury that it is dangerous to take her evidence at face value in Light of the diction in her Crown prosecutor Brian Kaplan said it is not the function of the it dirt the retry the Case or substitute its views for those 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 investigation into Winnipeg International Airport commercial an analysis of the flight log showed one perimeter airlines carrying 11 flew with an excess of 413 kilograms 91 pounds on i a second carrying 10 Pas sengers on was 224 kilo 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 Lefor Riverton airways pleaded guilty to three charges under the aeronautics 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 during a flight Between Winnipeg and Sandy one aircraft was calculated the be overweight by kilograms the second charge followed a flight Between Winnipeg an 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 Al two More people have been arrested for using or owning forged bringing the number of arrests to 12 since Winnipeg police began investigating the scam earlier this was apprehended Friday after he showed a fake pass while boarding a bus neat 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 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 Blackwood 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 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 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 Blackwood appealed 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 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